From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend cat-file to take multiple arguments or read input from stdin. Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:41:02 -0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 15 05:46:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsWcW-0003bE-Kz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:46:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754431AbXKOEqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754125AbXKOEqK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34520 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754083AbXKOEqJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:09 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IsWc7-0003Ex-JO for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:46:03 +0000 Received: from c911de8c.bhz.virtua.com.br ([201.17.222.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:46:03 +0000 Received: from hanwen by c911de8c.bhz.virtua.com.br with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:46:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c911de8c.bhz.virtua.com.br User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070926) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin escreveu: > Hi, > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> With this functionality, the entire object database can be dumped with a >> limited number of processes: two cat-file processes for discovering size >> and type, and one cat-file process per type. > > IMHO a better idea would be a counterpart to fast-import, probably called > "fast-export". You'd need only one process then, and it would not only be > faster, but would be usable by even more people, I guess. 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 size dump ? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen