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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Ed Avis <eda@waniasset•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git show' with multiple revisions
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:08:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpp6m6hox.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150429T175626-211@post.gmane.org> (Ed Avis's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC)")

Ed Avis <eda@waniasset•com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>
>>"cat-file --batch" will give you the objects in the order you ask.
>
> Thanks, that makes it easy to deal with.  In fact, I might prefer to use
> git cat-file --batch-check and then use some other library to fetch the blob
> contents.

If all you need is a translation from extended SHA-1 object name
like HEAD~243:Documentation/README to the raw 40-hex object name,
"rev-parse" may turn out to be more suitable tool than that.

It of course depends on your use case.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 16:08 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
2015-04-29 15:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 16:01       ` Ed Avis
2015-04-29 16:08         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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