From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 03:06:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [GSOC] ref-filter: add %(header) atom
Message-ID: <xmqqwnrj7e1x.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aa6d73f3e526f416ee1e4e332e9ca3119efba0e8.1622126603.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
>
> Add new formatting option `%(header)`, which will print the
> the structured header part of the raw object data.
>
> In the storage layout of an object: blob and tree only
> contains raw data; commit and tag raw data contains two part:
> header and contents. The header of tag contains "object OOO",
> "type TTT", "tag AAA", "tagger GGG"; The header of commit
> contains "tree RRR", "parent PPP", "author UUU", "committer CCC".
>
> Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt |  7 +++++
>  ref-filter.c                       | 26 +++++++++++++++++
>  t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh            | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)

While having this may not be wrong, I am not sure who needs it.  Is
your "cat-file --batch" topic needs this new atom?