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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 10fbc6a373..21cffe2bcd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -86,10 +86,9 @@ 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 considered as a whole object name, and is parsed as if -given to linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. +from stdin, one per line, and print information about them. By default, +the whole line is considered as an object, as if it were fed 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 @@ -110,6 +109,13 @@ 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`:: + If this atom is used in the output string, input lines are split + at the first whitespace boundary. All characters before that + whitespace are considered to be the object name; characters + after that first run of whitespace (i.e., the "rest" of the + line) are output in place of the `%(rest)` atom. + If no format is specified, the default format is `%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)`. |