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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-02-15 15:18:15 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-02-15 15:18:15 -0800
commitc93150cfb02257b38d0f8abcafc7de5908afbb3b (patch)
tree6e25351f5b4cb6945ce2feb4938d8ea2965114cc /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'as/read-tree-prefix-doc-fix' into maint (diff)
parentcat-file doc: document that -e will return some output (diff)
downloadtgif-c93150cfb02257b38d0f8abcafc7de5908afbb3b.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors' into maint
Doc update. * ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors: cat-file doc: document that -e will return some output
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index fb09cd69d6..f90f09b03f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ OPTIONS
<object>.
-e::
- Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object>
- exists and is a valid object.
+ Exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid
+ object. If <object> is of an invalid format exit with non-zero and
+ emits an error on stderr.
-p::
Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ If `-t` is specified, one of the <type>.
If `-s` is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes.
-If `-e` is specified, no output.
+If `-e` is specified, no output, unless the <object> is malformed.
If `-p` is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.