From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:12:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5541E3D4.7040207@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfv7i2n81.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On 04/30/2015 07:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> But stepping back a bit.
>
> We have been talking about HEAD^{resolve}:fleem but how did we learn
> that there is a path "fleem" in the tree of HEAD in the first place?
> I would presume that the answer eventually boils down to "somebody
> fed HEAD to 'ls-tree -r'", and then that somebody is an idiot if it
> did not grab the mode bits to learn what kind of blob fleem is, or
> if it did not tell the guy that wants to drive "cat-file --batch".
I think a plausible use case for this feature is to read
`$tag^{resolve}:RelNotes`, in which case the reason we know it's there
is "because the maintainer told us it is there".
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-30 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 20:57 RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks? David Turner
2015-04-29 21:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 21:24 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 21:30 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:48 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 22:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 23:05 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 22:29 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 23:11 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 0:37 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:06 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 1:16 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 3:18 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:45 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 3:37 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 8:12 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2015-04-30 18:03 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 18:28 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:32 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 18:44 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:49 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:00 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:10 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:17 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 10:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-30 18:27 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:25 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:51 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-01 3:29 ` David Turner
2015-05-01 5:36 ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 17:29 ` David Turner
2015-05-01 20:11 ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 21:09 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 22:47 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 8:10 ` Michael Haggerty
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