From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WIP/PATCH] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:40:28 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wr=
ote:

>> A =E2=80=98cat=E2=80=99 command (suggested by David) would also be u=
seful, so the
>> caller can read trees and blobs before they are accessible through
>> the object db. =C2=A0The svn importer would use this when applying
>> (svndiff0-format) deltas to import changes to regular files.
>
> How would the output be delimited? The same way fast-import expects
> its blob input?

Right.  I was imagining something like

 <blob hash> blob <size>
 ... content ...
 <blank line>

=C3=A0 la cat-file --batch.  Hopefully by the end of this weekend, if n=
o
one else gets to it first.