[PATCH] git-cat-file.txt: Document --textconv
From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:00
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <redacted> --- This formulation is based on my understanding that you can't cat-file --textconv something in the index or worktree. Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 58c8d65..da932ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objec SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>) <object> +'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object> 'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) < <list-of-objects> DESCRIPTION ----------- In its first form, the command provides the content or the type of an object in the repository. The type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the -object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size. +object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size, or '--textconv' is used +(which implies type "blob"). In the second form, a list of objects (separated by linefeeds) is provided on stdin, and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ OPTIONS or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that points at it. +--textconv:: + Show the content as transformed by a textconv filter. In this case, + <object> has be of the form <treeish:path>, with treeish defaulting to + HEAD. + --batch:: Print the SHA1, type, size, and contents of each object provided on stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments.
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