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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-06-27 23:59:18 -0700 |
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| committer |  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-28 08:53:22 -0700 |
| commit | 62bb99606d0377fc14f206cbdf95acb57149d87a (patch) | |
| tree | 463ce7f35f9b5979b4e8c94a575a00ce8a34720f /Documentation | |
| parent | [PATCH] git-cat-file: use sha1_object_info() on '-t'. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-62bb99606d0377fc14f206cbdf95acb57149d87a.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] git-cat-file: '-s' to find out object size.
We use sha1_object_info() now, and getting size is also trivial.
I admit that this is more of "because we can" not "because I see
immediate need for it", though.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 48fb37769c..2131a29993 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cat-file' (-t | <type>) <object> +'git-cat-file' (-t | -s | <type>) <object> DESCRIPTION ----------- Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type -is required if '-t' is not being used to find the object type. +is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type, +or '-s' is used to find the object size. OPTIONS ------- @@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ OPTIONS Instead of the content, show the object type identified by <object>. +-s:: + Instead of the content, show the object size identified by + <object>. + <type>:: Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given @@ -35,7 +40,8 @@ OPTIONS OUTPUT ------ -If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. +If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. If '-s' is specified, +the size of the <object> in bytes. Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned. |