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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-08-24 15:32:37 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-08-24 15:32:37 -0700
commitbda891e6647538693d6cec5d3085f1508fbb5f5f (patch)
tree70992fb2e373ecd84fb5923b76c44aa83aeba532 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'ab/pack-stdin-packs-fix' (diff)
parentref-filter: add %(rest) atom (diff)
downloadtgif-bda891e6647538693d6cec5d3085f1508fbb5f5f.tar.xz
Merge branch 'zh/ref-filter-raw-data'
Prepare the "ref-filter" machinery that drives the "--format" option of "git for-each-ref" and its friends to be used in "git cat-file --batch". * zh/ref-filter-raw-data: ref-filter: add %(rest) atom ref-filter: use non-const ref_format in *_atom_parser() ref-filter: --format=%(raw) support --perl ref-filter: add %(raw) atom ref-filter: add obj-type check in grab contents
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -235,6 +235,15 @@ and `date` to extract the named component. For email fields (`authoremail`,
without angle brackets, and `:localpart` to get the part before the `@` symbol
out of the trimmed email.
+The raw data in an object is `raw`.
+
+raw:size::
+ The raw data size of the object.
+
+Note that `--format=%(raw)` can not be used with `--python`, `--shell`, `--tcl`,
+because such language may not support arbitrary binary data in their string
+variable type.
+
The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which
`contents:<part>` can be used to extract various parts out of: