[PATCH] cat-file: document -p option
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:27
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
--- On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 08:31:08PM -0400, Sean wrote:
$ meld sha1_file.c <(git cat-file -p c2f493a4ae:sha1_file.c)
I had never seen the -p option, and it wasn't in the Documentation. Let me know if I've gotten its function completely wrong. :) -Peff Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 504eb1b..5e9cbf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type i SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | <type>] <object> +'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object> DESCRIPTION ----------- Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type -is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type, +is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size. OPTIONS
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ OPTIONS Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid object. +-p:: + Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. + <type>:: Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
@@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ If '-s' is specified, the size of the <o If '-e' is specified, no output. +If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. + Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned.
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