Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] vcs-svn: Add outfile option to buffer_copy_bytes()

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:59:30 -0500

David Barr wrote:

> Explicitly declare that output is to stdout for existing use.
> Allow users of buffer_copy_bytes() to specify the output file.

Probably worth mentioning the motivation, which is presumably
that svn-fe will be streaming the preimage for files expressed as
deltas from the cat-file-fd to a temporary file.

> Signed-off-by: David Barr <[email-masked]>

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>

Thanks.  (It's a good API change.)