Re: [PATCH 4/5] vcs-svn: Add outfile option to buffer_copy_bytes()

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2010, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20101018085930.GA5425@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1287147256-9457-5-git-send-email-david.barr@cordelta.com>

David Barr wrote:

> Explicitly declare that output is to stdout for existing use.
> Allow users of buffer_copy_bytes() to specify the output file.

Probably worth mentioning the motivation, which is presumably that svn-fe will be streaming the preimage for files expressed as deltas from the cat-file-fd to a temporary file.

> Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Thanks.  (It's a good API change.)

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