From bf0c6e839c692142784caf07b523cd69442e57a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:16:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make "cat-file" output the file contents to stdout.

New syntax: "cat-file -t <sha1>" shows the tag, while "cat-file <tag> <sha1>"
outputs the file contents after checking that the supplied tag matches.
---
 cache.h    |  1 +
 cat-file.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 98a32a9ad..b1313c503 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 
diff --git a/cat-file.c b/cat-file.c
index d8f0121e4..3071672c6 100644
--- a/cat-file.c
+++ b/cat-file.c
@@ -11,18 +11,42 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	char type[20];
 	void *buf;
 	unsigned long size;
-	char template[] = "temp_git_file_XXXXXX";
 	int fd;
 
-	if (argc != 2 || get_sha1_hex(argv[1], sha1))
-		usage("cat-file: cat-file <sha1>");
+	if (argc != 3 || get_sha1_hex(argv[2], sha1))
+		usage("cat-file: cat-file [-t | tagname] <sha1>");
 	buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, type, &size);
-	if (!buf)
+	if (!buf) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "cat-file %s: bad file\n", argv[2]);
 		exit(1);
-	fd = mkstemp(template);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		usage("unable to create tempfile");
-	if (write(fd, buf, size) != size)
-		strcpy(type, "bad");
-	printf("%s: %s\n", template, type);
+	}
+	if (!strcmp("-t", argv[1])) {
+		buf = type;
+		size = strlen(type);
+		type[size] = '\n';
+		size++;
+	} else if (strcmp(type, argv[1])) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "cat-file %s: bad tag\n", argv[2]);
+		exit(1);	/* bad tag */
+	}
+
+	while (size > 0) {
+		long ret = write(1, buf, size);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			if (errno == EAGAIN)
+				continue;
+			/* Ignore epipe */
+			if (errno == EPIPE)
+				break;
+			fprintf(stderr, "cat-file: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		if (!ret) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "cat-file: disk full?");
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		size -= ret;
+		buf += ret;
+	}
+	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.30.2