Merge branch 'ar/batch-cat'

* ar/batch-cat:
  change quoting in test t1006-cat-file.sh
  builtin-cat-file.c: use parse_options()
  git-svn: Speed up fetch
  Git.pm: Add hash_and_insert_object and cat_blob
  Git.pm: Add command_bidi_pipe and command_close_bidi_pipe
  git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option
  Add more tests for git hash-object
  Move git-hash-object tests from t5303 to t1007
  git-cat-file: Add --batch option
  git-cat-file: Add --batch-check option
  git-cat-file: Make option parsing a little more flexible
  git-cat-file: Small refactor of cmd_cat_file
  Add tests for git cat-file

2 files changed, 42 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index df42cb10f..f6c394c48 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>
+'git-cat-file' [--batch | --batch-check] < <list-of-objects>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
-is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type,
-or '-s' is used to find the object size.
+In the first form, provides content or type of objects in the repository. The
+type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s'
+is used to find the object size.
+
+In the second form, a list of object (separated by LFs) is provided on stdin,
+and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -46,6 +50,14 @@ OPTIONS
 	or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that
 	points at it.
 
+--batch::
+	Print the SHA1, type, size, and contents of each object provided on
+	stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments.
+
+--batch-check::
+	Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not be
+	combined with any other options or arguments.
+
 OUTPUT
 ------
 If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>.
@@ -56,9 +68,30 @@ If '-e' is specified, no output.
 
 If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.
 
-Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
-be returned.
+If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object>
+will be returned.
+
+If '--batch' is specified, output of the following form is printed for each
+object specified on stdin:
+
+------------
+<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF
+<contents> LF
+------------
+
+If '--batch-check' is specified, output of the following form is printed for
+each object specified fon stdin:
+
+------------
+<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF
+------------
+
+For both '--batch' and '--batch-check', output of the following form is printed
+for each object specified on stdin that does not exist in the repository:
 
+------------
+<object> SP missing LF
+------------
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 33030c022..99a21434b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--stdin] [--] <file>...
+'git-hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--stdin | --stdin-paths] [--] <file>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --stdin::
 	Read the object from standard input instead of from a file.
 
+--stdin-paths::
+	Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>