On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 09:29:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > > > Your patch only helps with this at all because you're using the "tree:1" > > ... > > because there you'll have actual names which cat-file will choke on. So > > it seems like this is helping only a very limited use case. > > ... > > Alternatively, it would be reasonable to me to have an option for > > "rev-list --objects" to have an option to suppress the filename (and > > space) entirely. > > Yup, I think that is a more reasonable short-term change compared to > the patch being discussed, and ...
I like this too. Starting work on it today. > > > I think in the longer run along those lines that "--objects" should > > allow cat-file style pretty-print formats, which would eliminate the > > need to pipe to cat-file in the first place. That makes this parsing > > problem go away entirely, and it's way more efficient to boot (rev-list > > already knows the types!). > > ... of course this makes tons of sense. Probably not going to start work on this now, but I will make a note to myself to have a look if I have some spare time soon, and keep an eye out for reviews in that area. > > Thanks. Thanks all for the feedback, I'll have a reroll soon. - Emily
