diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-hash-object.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-hash-object.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 02c1f1268..814e74406 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>... -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths> +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>... +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ OPTIONS Read the object from standard input instead of from a file. --stdin-paths:: - Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + Read file names from the standard input, one per line, instead + of from the command-line. --path:: Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of @@ -51,7 +52,13 @@ OPTIONS Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this - is always implied, unless the --path option is given. + is always implied, unless the `--path` option is given. + +--literally:: + Allow `--stdin` to hash any garbage into a loose object which might not + otherwise pass standard object parsing or git-fsck checks. Useful for + stress-testing Git itself or reproducing characteristics of corrupt or + bogus objects encountered in the wild. GIT --- |