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Re: [RFC] 'git cat-file' needs a better design on its option interface

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Sep 24, 2009, 19:30 UTC
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > 'git cat-file' is really really low-level plumbing. Humans should 
> > generally never use it.
> 
> ... except to understand Git better ;-). I enjoyed being able to to a
> 'git cat-file' on a tree or commit object when I started with Git.

In the context of learning git at that level, the current option interface for cat-file shouldn't look too strange though.

Nicolas
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  1. Li HongSep 24, 2009
  2. Jeff KingSep 24, 2009
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoySep 24, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreSep 24, 2009
  6. Li HongSep 25, 2009

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