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Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Jul 30, 2011, 19:06 UTC
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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.
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  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 30, 2011
  3. René ScharfeJul 31, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
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  7. Michael WittenJul 31, 2011
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  10. Michael WittenJul 31, 2011
  11. Michael NahasJul 31, 2011
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