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1 | git-cat-file(1) |
| 2 | =============== | |
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3 | |
| 4 | NAME | |
| 5 | ---- | |
| c3f0baac | 6 | git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects |
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7 | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 10 | -------- | |
| ed90cbf5 | 11 | 'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object> |
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12 | |
| 13 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 14 | ----------- | |
| 15 | Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type | |
| ed90cbf5 | 16 | is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, |
| 62bb9960 | 17 | or '-s' is used to find the object size. |
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18 | |
| 19 | OPTIONS | |
| 20 | ------- | |
| 21 | <object>:: | |
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22 | The name of the object to show. |
| 23 | For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see | |
| 5162e697 | 24 | "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. |
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25 | |
| 26 | -t:: | |
| 27 | Instead of the content, show the object type identified by | |
| 28 | <object>. | |
| 29 | ||
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30 | -s:: |
| 31 | Instead of the content, show the object size identified by | |
| 32 | <object>. | |
| 33 | ||
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34 | -e:: |
| 35 | Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> | |
| 36 | exists and is a valid object. | |
| 37 | ||
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38 | -p:: |
| 39 | Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. | |
| 40 | ||
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41 | <type>:: |
| 42 | Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking | |
| f73ae1fc | 43 | for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given |
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44 | <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a |
| 45 | "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, | |
| 46 | or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that | |
| 47 | points at it. | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | OUTPUT | |
| 50 | ------ | |
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51 | If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | If '-e' is specified, no output. | |
| 2cf565c5 | 56 | |
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57 | If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. |
| 58 | ||
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59 | Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will |
| 60 | be returned. | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | ||
| 63 | Author | |
| 64 | ------ | |
| 65 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | Documentation | |
| 68 | -------------- | |
| 69 | Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | GIT | |
| 72 | --- | |
| 5162e697 | 73 | Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite |