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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-05-25 05:55:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-05-25 05:55:22 +0000 |
| commit | 8eb323cd1826b5ca863990318cd73992085d03b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 02c5f152dae588d7aa200e79ff203380f9dac78c /git-cat-file.txt | |
| parent | 59929ee0dab1fc41579cb4a961e61cb1b28cc098 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-8eb323cd1826b5ca863990318cd73992085d03b6.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.3.3-ged90
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/git-cat-file.txt b/git-cat-file.txt index 504eb1b16..5e9cbf875 100644 --- a/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/git-cat-file.txt @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | <type>] <object> +'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object> DESCRIPTION ----------- Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type -is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type, +is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size. OPTIONS @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ OPTIONS Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid object. +-p:: + Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. + <type>:: Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given @@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. If '-e' is specified, no output. +If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. + Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned. |