From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:06:33 GMT
Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits
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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.