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Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:46:52AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
>> for i in $*
>> do
>>         git show HEAD:$prefix$i > $i
>> done
>
> FWIW, cg-restore is a 131-line shell script, so one can assume it's not 
> just doing it for fun.

Actually, such an assumption is not safe, simply since it was written
long before the :-syntax and many other nice features were invented; if
one wants to do things in Git sanely these days, it's not even safe to
look at Cogito's source code for inspiration anymore as it had to work
only with really hardcore primitives.

(And 38 lines is documentation.  ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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