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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git command to read
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:21:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Is there a command in git at the moment that will read commit IDs on
> standard input and print the contents of each commit on standard
> output (without waiting for EOF on stdin)?

How about:

  git cat-file --batch

?

Unfortunately it just dumps the raw commit information instead of
allowing the usual formatting, but perhaps that is sufficient (you asked
for "contents").

-Peff