From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:04:58 GMT
Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits
Message-ID: <7vy5zej611.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E350F15.9050009@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> Am 30.07.2011 21:06, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 16:29, Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>     "git xargs <commit> ..."  (Is this possible?)
>> 
>> I don't have comments on the rest of your proposal, but I've often
>> wanted a git-find(1) similar to git-grep(1). Which would give you this
>> functionality.
>> 
>> Then you could simply:
>> 
>>     git find <commit> <path> -type f | xargs <whatever>
>> 
>> Or something like that.
>
> How about this, which should match your example:
>
> 	git ls-tree -r --name-only <commit> <path> | xargs <whatever>

I don't get what this thread wants to achieve quite yet.

The devil is in <whatever> part. What would it do, given only the sequence
of pathnames and object names but not data?  Invoke low-level git commands
on them?