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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I know, and that's what I was thinking. However, I was hoping someone else 
> would pick up the hint :-)
>
> I suppose fast-export would just be cat-file with a different name and  
> slightly saner interface.  How about
>
>   type <sha1> <newline>
>   size <sha1> <newline>
>   dump <type> <sha1> <newline>

I wondered why that looked so familiar ;-)

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62295/focus=62441

Adam Roben CC'ed.