Re: Enumerating all objects in the Git object store
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Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com>
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- Mar 26, 2010, 21:11 UTC
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On 26 March 2010 15:53, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
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> Am 3/26/2010 16:31, schrieb Paul Richards: >> Is there a way to enumerate all the objects in the Git >> object store, and for each one figure out its type (commit, tree, or >> blob) and obtain a list of the objects it references? If not, is >> there a way to do this for a single object at a time? (I can then >> simply recurse through the whole structure.) > > Use 'git rev-list --objects --all' to find all objects connected to all > refs (use something else than --all if you want to). Do *not* look at the > path that the tree and blob objects have attached - it is not authorative > information. > > Use 'git cat-file -t' to find the type. > > Use 'git cat-file -p' to pretty-print the content of an object. Parse it > depending on the type that you find. >
Thank you, this looks perfect!
I'll check this out (and perhaps the optimizations suggested by Jakub if necessary).
-- Paul Richards