From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753074AbbCKOUb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:20:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:41168 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751052AbbCKOU2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:20:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1426075485.4244.112.camel@x220> References: <1426072565-22296-1-git-send-email-valentinrothberg@gmail.com> <1426075485.4244.112.camel@x220> From: Valentin Rothberg Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:19:56 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkkconfigsymbols.py: make it Git aware To: Paul Bolle Cc: Greg KH , hengelein Stefan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Ruprecht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 12:16 +0100, Valentin Rothberg wrote: >> Note that both options require to 'git reset --hard' the user's Git >> tree, which can lead to the loss of uncommitted data. > > My local "800 line perl monster" basically does > git ls-tree -r $commit_or_tag > > which allows you to generate a list of files and their corresponding > hashes (it also helps with filtering out symlinks by the way). > > The you can do > git cat-file blob $commit:$path > > or just > git cat-file blob $hash > > for every file you're interested in and parse the output of that file > (in memory, as it were). None of that messes with the current state of > the tree you're working on. That's a good point. I used cat-file once in another script but totally forgot its existence, thanks : ) The patch is already queued, so I will change the behavior to your suggestion soon. Kind regards, Valentin