rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable piping
Allow easier parsing by cat-file by giving rev-list an option to print only the OID of a non-commit object without any additional information. This is a short-term shim; later on, rev-list should be taught how to print the types of objects it finds in a format similar to cat-file's. Before this commit, the output from rev-list needed to be massaged before being piped to cat-file, like so: git rev-list --objects HEAD | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | git cat-file --batch-check This was especially unexpected when dealing with root trees, as an invisible whitespace exists at the end of the OID: git rev-list --objects --filter=tree:1 --max-count=1 HEAD | xargs -I% echo "AA%AA" Now, it can be piped directly, as in the added test case: git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Change-Id: I489bdf0a8215532e540175188883ff7541d70e1b Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>