From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:07:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written
Message-ID: <20101013000741.GK15587@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=MWyK=_7jK7B_0+GD4fWJcyjk7n+zAP2eKKw2H@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:38, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> At any rate, that is not needed for the current version of svn-fe,
>> is it?  So maybe it would make sense to strip down the patch to just
>> allow
>>
>>        cat <blob>
>
> Do we want some sort of type indicator to make it easier to extend? So
> "cat blob <blob>"?

I'm not convinced it's needed.  cat-file does that to allow peeling
references:

	git cat-file tree v1.7.1
vs
	git cat-file tag v1.7.1

But the "cat" name might be too valuable namespace to reserve for only
this.  I have no strong preference either way.  Maybe the command
should be named "cat-blob".