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Re: Why git-ls-tree has no --stdin option?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 18, 2006, 17:39 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Why git-ls-tree has no --stdin option to give <tree-ish> (feed it from
> git-ref-list for example), like git-diff-tree has? The output format could
> be similar: treeish, then git-ls-tree output, treeish, tree,...

The only reason is nobody felt need for it so far, hence nobody bothered. If you find it useful, go wild.

> Also, is there a combination of options which would display only exact
> matches to path limit, i.e. tree entry only if path is directory, and file
> (blob) entry only if path is ordinary file?

I probably am misunderstanding the question but an empty set is the combination you want perhaps?

$ git ls-tree HEAD -- t Document sha1 sha1_name.c 100644 blob e9eb6ce882ea92523c9a871c7581457af2dc78c5 sha1_name.c 040000 tree 3fb2bfdfef59e4ed10f525ef10ad8b43b8bc459e t

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