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: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:53:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429155309.GB13518@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150429T174544-7@post.gmane.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:47:33PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:
>
> >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).
>
> This looks like what I want but the object ids printed appear to be the id
> of the file in a given revision - not the id of the revision itself.
> So the ids in the output are not the same as the ones in the input.
Correct. You are feeding a name which resolves to the blob sha1, so
that's what cat-file will output for the object id.
> That's fine, as long as I can assume that the output entries are in the same
> order as the input?
Yes, it will process and output them in order.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 15:53 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
2015-04-29 15:47 ` Ed Avis
2015-04-29 15:53 ` Jeff King [this message]
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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