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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-06-27 23:59:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-28 08:53:22 -0700
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[PATCH] git-cat-file: '-s' to find out object size.
We use sha1_object_info() now, and getting size is also trivial. I admit that this is more of "because we can" not "because I see immediate need for it", though. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 48fb37769..2131a2999 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-cat-file' (-t | <type>) <object>
+'git-cat-file' (-t | -s | <type>) <object>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
-is required if '-t' is not being used to find the object type.
+is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type,
+or '-s' is used to find the object size.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -25,6 +26,10 @@ OPTIONS
Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
<object>.
+-s::
+ Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
+ <object>.
+
<type>::
Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given
@@ -35,7 +40,8 @@ OPTIONS
OUTPUT
------
-If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>.
+If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. If '-s' is specified,
+the size of the <object> in bytes.
Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
be returned.