Re: Enumerating all objects in the Git object store

[Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com>]

On 26 March 2010 15:53, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 3/26/2010 16:31, schrieb Paul Richards:
>> Is there a way to enumerate all the objects in the Git
>> object store, and for each one figure out its type (commit, tree, or
>> blob) and obtain a list of the objects it references?  If not, is
>> there a way to do this for a single object at a time?  (I can then
>> simply recurse through the whole structure.)
>
> Use 'git rev-list --objects --all' to find all objects connected to all
> refs (use something else than --all if you want to). Do *not* look at the
> path that the tree and blob objects have attached - it is not authorative
> information.
>
> Use 'git cat-file -t' to find the type.
>
> Use 'git cat-file -p' to pretty-print the content of an object. Parse it
> depending on the type that you find.
>

Thank you, this looks perfect!

I'll check this out (and perhaps the optimizations suggested by Jakub
if necessary).


-- 
Paul Richards