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259<title>git-cat-file(1)</title>
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262<div id="header">
263<h1>
264git-cat-file(1) Manual Page
265</h1>
266<h2>NAME</h2>
267<div class="sectionbody">
268<p>git-cat-file -
Junio C Hamano7c73c662007-01-19 00:37:50[diff] [blame]269 Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]270</p>
271</div>
272</div>
273<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
274<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano8eb323c2006-05-25 05:55:22[diff] [blame]275<p><em>git-cat-file</em> [-t | -s | -e | -p | &lt;type&gt;] &lt;object&gt;</p>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]276</div>
277<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
278<div class="sectionbody">
279<p>Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
Junio C Hamano8eb323c2006-05-25 05:55:22[diff] [blame]280is required unless <em>-t</em> or <em>-p</em> is used to find the object type,
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]281or <em>-s</em> is used to find the object size.</p>
282</div>
283<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
284<div class="sectionbody">
285<dl>
286<dt>
287&lt;object&gt;
288</dt>
289<dd>
290<p>
Junio C Hamano8f62db92007-02-01 00:22:22[diff] [blame]291 The name of the object to show.
292 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
293 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]294</p>
295</dd>
296<dt>
297-t
298</dt>
299<dd>
300<p>
301 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
302 &lt;object&gt;.
303</p>
304</dd>
305<dt>
306-s
307</dt>
308<dd>
309<p>
310 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
311 &lt;object&gt;.
312</p>
313</dd>
314<dt>
315-e
316</dt>
317<dd>
318<p>
319 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if &lt;object&gt;
320 exists and is a valid object.
321</p>
322</dd>
323<dt>
Junio C Hamano8eb323c2006-05-25 05:55:22[diff] [blame]324-p
325</dt>
326<dd>
327<p>
328 Pretty-print the contents of &lt;object&gt; based on its type.
329</p>
330</dd>
331<dt>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]332&lt;type&gt;
333</dt>
334<dd>
335<p>
336 Typically this matches the real type of &lt;object&gt; but asking
337 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
338 &lt;object&gt; is also permitted. An example is to ask for a
339 "tree" with &lt;object&gt; being a commit object that contains it,
340 or to ask for a "blob" with &lt;object&gt; being a tag object that
341 points at it.
342</p>
343</dd>
344</dl>
345</div>
346<h2>OUTPUT</h2>
347<div class="sectionbody">
348<p>If <em>-t</em> is specified, one of the &lt;type&gt;.</p>
349<p>If <em>-s</em> is specified, the size of the &lt;object&gt; in bytes.</p>
350<p>If <em>-e</em> is specified, no output.</p>
Junio C Hamano8eb323c2006-05-25 05:55:22[diff] [blame]351<p>If <em>-p</em> is specified, the contents of &lt;object&gt; are pretty-printed.</p>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23[diff] [blame]352<p>Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the &lt;object&gt; will
353be returned.</p>
354</div>
355<h2>Author</h2>
356<div class="sectionbody">
357<p>Written by Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;</p>
358</div>
359<h2>Documentation</h2>
360<div class="sectionbody">
361<p>Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p>
362</div>
363<h2>GIT</h2>
364<div class="sectionbody">
365<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(7)</a> suite</p>
366</div>
367<div id="footer">
368<div id="footer-text">
Junio C Hamanobb6e0782007-07-19 02:14:50[diff] [blame]369Last updated 19-Jul-2007 02:09:32 UTC
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