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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WIP/PATCH] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported
 commit
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 00:12:01 -0500
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Should fast-import accept lines of the form
>=20
>  M 100644 <commit id>:<path> <path>
>=20
> and
>=20
>  M 040000 <commit id>:<path> <path>
>=20
> to allow the caller to use commits before they are accessible
> through the git object database?

A =E2=80=98cat=E2=80=99 command (suggested by David) would also be usef=
ul, so the
caller can read trees and blobs before they are accessible through
the object db.  The svn importer would use this when applying
(svndiff0-format) deltas to import changes to regular files.