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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt12
-rw-r--r--cat-file.c13
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 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.
diff --git a/cat-file.c b/cat-file.c
index 0076fc5b2..85a5d4cae 100644
--- a/cat-file.c
+++ b/cat-file.c
@@ -13,11 +13,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
unsigned long size;
if (argc != 3 || get_sha1(argv[2], sha1))
- usage("git-cat-file [-t | tagname] <sha1>");
+ usage("git-cat-file [-t | -s | tagname] <sha1>");
- if (!strcmp("-t", argv[1])) {
+ if (!strcmp("-t", argv[1]) || !strcmp("-s", argv[1])) {
if (!sha1_object_info(sha1, type, &size)) {
- printf("%s\n", type);
+ switch (argv[1][1]) {
+ case 't':
+ printf("%s\n", type);
+ break;
+ case 's':
+ printf("%lu\n", size);
+ break;
+ }
return 0;
}
buf = NULL;