NAME
git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for
repository objects
SYNOPSIS
git-cat-file [-t | -s | -e | -p |
<type>] <object>
DESCRIPTION
Provides content or type of objects in the
repository. The type is required unless -t or -p is
used to find the object type, or -s is used to find the
object size.
OPTIONS
- <object>
- The sha1 identifier of the object.
- -t
- Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
<object>.
- -s
- Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
<object>.
- -e
- Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if
<object> exists and is a valid object.
- -p
- Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.
- <type>
- Typically this matches the real type of <object> but
asking for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
<object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a "tree"
with <object> being a commit object that contains it, or to
ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that points
at it.
OUTPUT
If -t is specified, one of the <type>.
If -s is specified, the size of the <object> in
bytes.
If -e is specified, no output.
If -p is specified, the contents of <object> are
pretty-printed.
Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the
<object> will be returned.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C
Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the (7) suite