From: Paul Richards Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:11:07 GMT Subject: Re: Enumerating all objects in the Git object store Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BACD86E.4020803@viscovery.net> On 26 March 2010 15:53, Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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