From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:38:33 -0500
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Heya,

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 22:27, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
> middle of a commit and request objects then.

I'm not sure I understand the justification of this patch. Is the
purpose of this patch to save you from having to loop over everything
you want to commit in the next commit and cat-ing that in advance?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier