From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I get the contents of a directory in fast-import
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 18:56:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvegdqb946.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvio3d7152.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git.user@gnu.org
Any help would be greatly welcome, including "sorry, can't do that".
Stefan
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> I have a program which tries to collect info from lots of branches and
> generate some table from that data into another branch.
> For performance reasons, I'd like to do that from fast-import, and as
> long as I know the name of all the files I need to consult, everything
> is fine since I can use the "ls" and "cat-blob" commands of fast-import
> to get efficiently the data I need.
> But I also need to look at some files whose names I don't know beforehand
> (i.e. all the files in some directories). If I do "cat-blob" on those
> directories I get some binary "thing" which I don't understand.
> So how do I get a directory listing from fast-inmport, i.e.
> like I can get with "git cat-file -p", but without having to fork
> a separate git process?
> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-09 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 15:54 How do I get the contents of a directory in fast-import Stefan Monnier
2016-01-09 23:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-01-15 22:39 ` Jeff King
2016-01-16 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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