Re: Tip of the day: archaeology

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Dec 13, 2005, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512131351100.4184@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpso07l63.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> *1* Sometimes I wish we had "cvs co -p" equivalent.
> 
> 	$ git cat-blob rev path
> 
> Perhaps?

Isn't "git-ls-tree rev path" good enough? Maybe you want to wrap it with

	#!/bin/sh
	git-ls-tree "$@" |
		while read mode type sha name
		do
			git-cat-file $type $sha
		done

or something?

		Linus

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