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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects
 being written
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:07:41 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 00:38, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> w=
rote:

>> At any rate, that is not needed for the current version of svn-fe,
>> is it? =C2=A0So maybe it would make sense to strip down the patch to=
 just
>> allow
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0cat <blob>
>
> Do we want some sort of type indicator to make it easier to extend? S=
o
> "cat blob <blob>"?

I'm not convinced it's needed.  cat-file does that to allow peeling
references:

	git cat-file tree v1.7.1
vs
	git cat-file tag v1.7.1

But the "cat" name might be too valuable namespace to reserve for only
this.  I have no strong preference either way.  Maybe the command
should be named "cat-blob".