Re: [PATCH] [GSOC] cat-file: fix --batch report changed-type bug

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2021, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <60b509be97423_24d2820856@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YLT2UfCZyQIXWIOv@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> The simplest test is just:
> 
>   git -C all-two cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch="%(objectname)" >/dev/null
> 
> which will currently fail. It would be nice to verify that its output is
> sensible, but I'm not sure how to easily do that (it will spew a bunch
> of binary tree data, and it cannot even be parsed reliably since we
> haven't output the sizes).

I use ruby to parse binary data from git all the time:

        git log --format='%b%x00' |
                ruby -e 'ARGF.each("\0", chomp: true) { |chunk| p chunk }'

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Felipe Contreras