From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:32:26 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Message-ID: <20150430183226.GA2855@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1430418522.22711.22.camel@ubuntu>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:28:42AM -0700, David Turner wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 11:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> > 
> > > In no case did we do a ls-files command,...
> > 
> > "ls-tree -r" is what I would have imagined you would be using, as
> > somebody needs to have the full repository in order to resolve the
> > symbolic links _anyway_, and that somebody does not need to have a
> > checkout in order to do so.
> 
> Yes, they have the full repo, but we are only exploring a small fraction
> of it. ls-tree -r would require parsing the entire thing.

git ls-tree HEAD -- BUILD ?

-Peff