From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:09:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend cat-file to take multiple arguments or read input from stdin.
Message-ID: <7vd4uc82g2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fhgitt$b8d$1@ger.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I know, and that's what I was thinking. However, I was hoping someone else 
> would pick up the hint :-)
>
> I suppose fast-export would just be cat-file with a different name and  
> slightly saner interface.  How about
>
>   type <sha1> <newline>
>   size <sha1> <newline>
>   dump <type> <sha1> <newline>

I wondered why that looked so familiar ;-)

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62295/focus=62441

Adam Roben CC'ed.