[Question/Feature Request] Getting contents or copying binary blob about git2r

[stewid]

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I added an argument raw to the content function to return the blob content as a raw vector when set. Could you please checkout the branch raw-blob-content and try if that solves your use-case. Maybe, your suggestion b) to use blob_content_to_file is better? Or should also be added to facilitate various use-cases?

[noamross]

Wow, what turnaround! Yes, running content(..., raw= TRUE) on the raw-blob-content branch solves my use-case. Thanks!

While blob_content_to_file might be more elegant in some cases, I think the cases where its efficiency would be needed are quite niche. It would be faster in cases where (a) large binary files are stored in the git repository, and/or (b) one is extracting many files, such as a script where one is getting every version of a file or files out of git history.