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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: fast-import fails in read-only tree
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:05:45 +0100
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> If you're really going to do a lot of interactive back-and-forth access
> of objects, though, I think you want to set up pipes to cat-file. It's a
> little tedious to allocate fifos, but something like:

With bash's coproc it's a bit less tedious:

>   mkfifo in out
>   (exec git cat-file --batch <in >out) &
>   exec 8>in
>   exec 9<out
>   echo $sha >&8
>   read mode type size <&9

    coproc CAT_FILE git cat-file --batch
    echo $sha >&${CAT_FILE[1]}
    read mode type size <&${CAT_FILE[0]}

Andreas.

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