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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 3ddec0b65b..10fbc6a373 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -88,10 +88,8 @@ BATCH OUTPUT If `--batch` or `--batch-check` is given, `cat-file` will read objects from stdin, one per line, and print information about them. -Each line is split at the first whitespace boundary. All characters -before that whitespace are considered as a whole object name, and are -parsed as if given to linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. Characters after that -whitespace can be accessed using the `%(rest)` atom (see below). +Each line is considered as a whole object name, and is parsed as if +given to linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. You can specify the information shown for each object by using a custom `<format>`. The `<format>` is copied literally to stdout for each @@ -112,10 +110,6 @@ newline. The available atoms are: The size, in bytes, that the object takes up on disk. See the note about on-disk sizes in the `CAVEATS` section below. -`rest`:: - The text (if any) found after the first run of whitespace on the - input line (i.e., the "rest" of the line). - If no format is specified, the default format is `%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)`. |