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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 12 |
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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. |