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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro•umontreal.ca>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: How do I get the contents of a directory in fast-import
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:54:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvio3d7152.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git.user@gnu.org> (raw)

I have a program which tries to collect info from lots of branches and
generate some table from that data into another branch.

For performance reasons, I'd like to do that from fast-import, and as
long as I know the name of all the files I need to consult, everything
is fine since I can use the "ls" and "cat-blob" commands of fast-import
to get efficiently the data I need.

But I also need to look at some files whose names I don't know beforehand
(i.e. all the files in some directories).  If I do "cat-blob" on those
directories I get some binary "thing" which I don't understand.

So how do I get a directory listing from fast-inmport, i.e.
like I can get with "git cat-file -p", but without having to fork
a separate git process?


        Stefan

next             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-01 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-01 15:54 Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-01-09 23:56 ` How do I get the contents of a directory in fast-import Stefan Monnier
2016-01-15 22:39 ` Jeff King
2016-01-16  1:59   ` Stefan Monnier

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