git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Add list-all-objects command

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 22, 2015, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20150622102433.GA12584@peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<CACsJy8DGD6PLVJMFQGKyk9YGUn16G8+dLx2bMBn8fyjuXvfbBw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 04:57:28PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
Show 14 quoted lines
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> wrote:
> > From: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
> >
> > list-all-objects is a command to print the ids of all objects in the
> > object database of a repository. It is designed as a low overhead
> > interface for scripts that want to analyse all objects but don't require
> > the ordering implied by a revision walk.
> >
> > It will list all objects, loose and packed, and will include unreachable
> > objects.
> 
> Nit picking, but perhaps we should allow to select object source:
> loose, packed, alternates.. These info are available now and cheap to
> get. It's ok not to do it now though.

There is already plumbing to do those individual operations if you want. Although some of the plumbing involves "for i in objects/pack/*.pack", which is perhaps a little less abstract than we'd like. :)

> Personally I would name this command "find-objects" (after unix
> command "find") where we could still filter objects _not_ based on
> object content.

I like that better than "ls", too, but I propose that we actually add this as a feature to cat-file. I'll send patches in a moment.

-Peff
Previous: Duy NguyenNext: Jeff King
Message 49 of 51 in “Improvements to parse-options and a new filter-objects command”
  1. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  2. 1/3 Correct test-parse-options to handle negative intsCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  4. 2/3 Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.cCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  5. Remi Galan AlfonsoJun 19, 2015
  6. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  9. Jakub NarębskiJun 20, 2015
  10. Jakub NarębskiJun 19, 2015
  11. Charles BaileyJun 20, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2015
  13. 3/3 Add filter-objects commandCharles Bailey, Jun 19, 2015
  14. Jeff KingJun 19, 2015
  15. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  16. Jeff KingJun 19, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015
  18. John KeepingJun 19, 2015
  19. Charles BaileyJun 19, 2015
  20. Improvements to integer option parsingCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  21. 1/2 Correct test-parse-options to handle negative intsCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  22. 2/2 Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.cCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  23. Charles BaileyJun 21, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  27. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  28. Fast enumeration of objectsCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  29. Add list-all-objects commandCharles Bailey, Jun 21, 2015
  30. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  31. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  32. 1/7 for_each_packed_object: automatically open pack indexJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  33. 2/7 cat-file: minor style fix in options listJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  34. 3/7 cat-file: move batch_options definition to top of fileJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  35. 4/7 cat-file: add --buffer optionJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  36. 5/7 cat-file: stop returning value from batch_one_objectJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  37. 6/7 cat-file: split batch_one_object into two stagesJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  38. 7/7 cat-file: add --batch-all-objects optionJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  39. Eric SunshineJun 26, 2015
  40. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  41. 8/7 cat-file: sort and de-dup output of --batch-all-objectsJeff King, Jun 22, 2015
  42. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  43. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  44. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  45. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015
  46. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  47. Charles BaileyJun 22, 2015
  48. Duy NguyenJun 22, 2015
  49. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  50. Jeff KingJun 22, 2015
  51. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2015

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.