From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:30:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] 'git cat-file' needs a better design on its option interface
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241528110.4997@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <vpqy6o4kv24.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> 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