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From: "Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:23:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c6c07c20702160823j316c52f4pe4cf5ca8a882e194@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Here's a suggestion for a git feature, if git doesn't already have it.
 Since git generally doesn't use RCS-style keyword cookies (like
"$Id$"), it'd be nice to have some other way to identify an installed
file.  Perhaps you'd want to know exactly what rev a user is running,
for example.

It seems like it should be fairly easy, given a blob (the file), for
git to describe what it knows about it.  For example, it could provide
a list of commits that it's a part of, etc.  It'd be *really* nice if
only the output of the sha1sum command on the blob were needed.  (I
can't recall exactly how git's blob SHA1's are computed--maybe this
isn't feasible.)

Mike

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16 16:23 Mike Coleman [this message]
2007-02-16 16:48 ` suggested feature: someone mails me a blob, git please tell me what it is Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-16 17:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-02-16 17:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-17  6:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-17 21:40   ` Andy Parkins

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