Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2010, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=7jUSCNiPf+HfEQuxaf16Jt06--bFE7=Of9wp=@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009040153280.19366@xanadu.home>

ok, there's one other question i need some info on (thank you to nguyen for answering about git cat-file): is there a way to make git-pack-objects _just_ give the index file, rather than go to all the trouble of creating the pack file as well?

the reason i ask is because i would like to get the index file, parse it for objects (as nicolas recommends) then present the contents of "git cat-file" as files within subdirectories, via this pseudo-VFS-layer over bittorrent.

tia,

l.

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