From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Tip of the day: archaeology
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:
> 
> *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