Use Emacs to find and view files in a bare git repository
I have a number of bare git repositories to which I sync files from and to different computers. Now and then I need to find a file when I'm inside a bare repository. `git-cat' helps with that.
To use it, make sure you are in a bare git repository or inside a
.git directory, then type M-x git-cat RET, enter a file name
pattern (a regexp), and type RET. Then select the file to view
among the hits.
The files will be saved in your temporary directory named with the full path of the file in the repository. Each slash is replaced by an underscore. If you want to view the same file again, you will be asked if you want to overwrite the file in the temporary directory.
Perhaps I didn't try hard enough, but I could get Magit to list files in a bare repo.
Below I'm in the .git folder of this repository:
Activating git-cat and I decide to list all files that has a period in the file name (the input is sent to grep via a shell command and the period needs to be escaped twice):
I now get a filtered list of all files in the repository and need to select one of the files:
Since I opened this file before, I'm asked to overwrite it:
Finally, the file is shown:
git-cat works very well with ivy and, I suspect with most completion frameworks.