From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:39:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Why git-ls-tree has no --stdin option?
Message-ID: <7v7j16aqpv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <ec45ca$id8$1@sea.gmane.org>

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