> automate get_file_by_path PATH [REVISION]
> -> returns the complete file given in path in a certain revision,
> if the revision is omitted, this basically returns the current
> contents of the file in the current workspace revision
>
> automate get_file_type PATH [REVISION]
> -> returns the file type binary/non-binary, again for the current
> or any other revision
These would just be subsets of what get_manifest_of does. And I'd expect
that most applications that would be calling these would already have
results from get_manifest_of laying around.