the core of cat-file.c is quite short. i think you could get the random access you want with minimal effort. ideally, upstream support for --offset and --count

the core of cat-file.c is quite short. i think you could get the random access you want with minimal effort. ideally, upstream support for --offset and --count or what not to git; a lot of people would benefit. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/cat-file.c https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/cat-file.c you can absolutely make tools to expand out & load git repos into content stores. it's going to depend on the content store how you do that.