From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: Ed Avis <eda@waniasset•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git show' with multiple revisions
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:04:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429020452.GA873@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150428T120412-982@post.gmane.org>
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10:52AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> Could 'git show' sprout an option to get multiple things programmatically
> so that they can be separated out again? One way would be to quote or escape
> the contents somehow so that the result can be parsed:
>
> % git show --porcelain REV1:FILE REV2:FILE
>
> [...]
>
> Note that here I am only getting the file content, not log messages or any of
> the other things which 'git show' can produce. So perhaps what I really want
> is some kind of 'git cat'. Or is there another more appropriate tool?
I think you want `git cat-file`:
{
echo REV1:FILE
echo REV2:FILE
} |
git cat-file --batch
This prints a header line for each output object which contains the size
of the object (so a parser reads a header line, then N bytes, then a
header line, N bytes, and so on).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 10:10 'git show' with multiple revisions Ed Avis
2015-04-29 2:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-04-29 15:47 ` Ed Avis
2015-04-29 15:53 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 15:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 16:01 ` Ed Avis
2015-04-29 16:08 ` Junio C Hamano
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