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Re: 'git show' with multiple revisions

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 29, 2015, 15:53 UTC
Message-ID
<20150429155309.GB13518@peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<loom.20150429T174544-7@post.gmane.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:47:33PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:
> 
> >I think you want `git cat-file`:
> >
> >  {
> >	echo REV1:FILE
> >	echo REV2:FILE
> >  } |
> >  git cat-file --batch
> >
> >This prints a header line for each output object which contains the size
> >of the object (so a parser reads a header line, then N bytes, then a
> >header line, N bytes, and so on).
> 
> This looks like what I want but the object ids printed appear to be the id
> of the file in a given revision - not the id of the revision itself.
> So the ids in the output are not the same as the ones in the input.

Correct. You are feeding a name which resolves to the blob sha1, so that's what cat-file will output for the object id.

> That's fine, as long as I can assume that the output entries are in the same
> order as the input?
Yes, it will process and output them in order.
-Peff
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  3. Ed AvisApr 29, 2015
  4. Jeff KingApr 29, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2015
  6. Ed AvisApr 29, 2015
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