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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-24 22:32:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-24 22:32:38 -0700 |
| commit | 84138845c56306d1c455b89a6be7fbdc4f2ead04 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ead45d4420c683fdb8270e760f5cf242548d6e9 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'sp/reflog' into next (diff) | |
| parent | fetch-pack: give up after getting too many "ack continue" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-84138845c56306d1c455b89a6be7fbdc4f2ead04.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/fetchupload' into next
* jc/fetchupload:
fetch-pack: give up after getting too many "ack continue"
cat-file: document -p option
Built git-upload-tar should be ignored.
ls-remote: fix rsync:// to report HEAD
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 504eb1b16a..5e9cbf875d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/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. |