Documentation/git-write-blob.txt

   1 git-write-blob(1)
   2 =================
   3 v0.1, May 2005
   4
   5 NAME
   6 ----
   7 git-write-blob - Creates a blob from a file
   8
   9
  10 SYNOPSIS
  11 --------
  12 'git-write-blob' <any-file-on-the-filesystem>
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Writes the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the work
  17 tree) as a blob into the object database, and reports its object ID to its
  18 standard output.  This is used by "git-merge-one-file-script" to update the
  19 cache without modifying files in the work tree.
  20
  21
  22 Author
  23 ------
  24 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  25
  26 Documentation
  27 --------------
  28 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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  30 GIT
  31 ---
  32 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
  33