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Subject: Re: Remote git-cat-file?
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
[...]
> But in the general case, the answer is no. Set up a gitweb thing, and look 
> up the objects that way. Or just pull the repo, and look at it locally.

I ended up doing that (clone whole remote repo).


> Just out of interest, why would you ever want to just look at a single 
> object?

Well...
I screwed up my local clone of a repo. git-fsck told me what objects I needed.
So I finally ended up downloading the whole repo again to extract 16 objects. ;)


The other possible use for remote git-cat-file:
It might be useful in shallow repos to selectively load objects "on demand".
(In fact, I screwed my repo by trying to make it shallow.)


    Elrond