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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow saving an object from a pipe
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> In order to support getting data into git with scripts, this adds a
> --stdin option to git-hash-object, which will make it read from stdin.

Thanks, will apply.

To be honest, though, I am still debating myself about the merit
of not having to have a temporary file.  Because we need the
size of the blob available before starting to hash (i.e. we
cannot say "atend"), index_pipe ends up keeping the whole blob
data in memory, which is not much better than the caller storing
it in a temporary file and driving the normal hash-object from
the command line anyway.