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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> So we could make a '{ }' in the argument space basically do a SHA1 
> expansion of the range inside, and imply --no-walk. It's _not_ entirely 
> trivial, because we'd need to handle the fact that object flags are 
> sticky, and clear them in between invocations of multiple ranges, but it's 
> not _fundmanetally_ difficult. It's just that somebody would need to do 
> it.

Wouldn't you lose the nice streaming output (iow short latency)?