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| author |  Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> | 2015-05-04 03:25:13 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-05-04 14:19:23 -0700 |
| commit | 83115ac4a811ef37318bc0e68a5e8b229751a88f (patch) | |
| tree | c9948a871f836e581f7125bf76237de13a4da0a6 /Documentation | |
| parent | hash-object: add --literally option (diff) | |
| download | tgif-83115ac4a811ef37318bc0e68a5e8b229751a88f.tar.xz | |
git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
Document the git-hash-object --literally option added by 5ba9a93
(hash-object: add --literally option, 2014-09-11).
While here, also correct a minor typesetting oversight.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-hash-object.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 02c1f12685..0c75f3b610 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>... +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>... 'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths> DESCRIPTION @@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ OPTIONS Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this - is always implied, unless the --path option is given. + is always implied, unless the `--path` option is given. + +--literally:: + Allow `--stdin` to hash any garbage into a loose object which might not + otherwise pass standard object parsing or git-fsck checks. Useful for + stress-testing Git itself or reproducing characteristics of corrupt or + bogus objects encountered in the wild. GIT --- |