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From: "Alexander Gavrilov" <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git command to read
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:06:35 +0400
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> Jeff King writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:21:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a command in git at the moment that will read commit IDs on
>> > standard input and print the contents of each commit on standard
>> > output (without waiting for EOF on stdin)?
>>
>> How about:
>>
>>   git cat-file --batch
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Unfortunately it just dumps the raw commit information instead of
>> allowing the usual formatting, but perhaps that is sufficient (you asked
>> for "contents").
>
> Ah, thank you, that looks like just what I want. :)

Since cat-file does not perform any encoding conversion, you'll have
to process the encoding headers manually though.

Alexander