Documentation/git-cat-file.txt

   1 git-cat-file(1)
   2 ===============
   3 v0.1, May 2005
   4
   5 NAME
   6 ----
   7 git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects
   8
   9
  10 SYNOPSIS
  11 --------
  12 'git-cat-file' (-t | -s | <type>) <object>
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
  17 is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type,
  18 or '-s' is used to find the object size.
  19
  20 OPTIONS
  21 -------
  22 <object>::
  23         The sha1 identifier of the object.
  24
  25 -t::
  26         Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
  27         <object>.
  28
  29 -s::
  30         Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
  31         <object>.
  32
  33 <type>::
  34         Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
  35         for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given
  36         <object> is also permitted.  An example is to ask for a
  37         "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it,
  38         or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that
  39         points at it.
  40
  41 OUTPUT
  42 ------
  43 If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>.  If '-s' is specified,
  44 the size of the <object> in bytes.
  45
  46 Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
  47 be returned.
  48
  49
  50 Author
  51 ------
  52 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  53
  54 Documentation
  55 --------------
  56 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  57
  58 GIT
  59 ---
  60 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  61