Thread (104 messages) 104 messages, 4 authors, 2018-02-19
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[PATCH v3 23/23] cat-file: update of docs

From: Olga Telezhnaya <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-12 08:10:07
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Update the docs for cat-file command. Some new formatting atoms added
because of reusing ref-filter code.
We do not support cat-file atoms in general formatting logic
(there is just the support for cat-file), that is why some of the atoms
are still explained in cat-file docs.
We need to move these explanations when atoms will be supported
by other commands.

Signed-off-by: Olga Telezhnaia <redacted>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder [off-list ref]
Mentored by: Jeff King [off-list ref]
---
 Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index f90f09b03fae5..90639ac21d0e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -187,17 +187,8 @@ linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 You can specify the information shown for each object by using a custom
 `<format>`. The `<format>` is copied literally to stdout for each
 object, with placeholders of the form `%(atom)` expanded, followed by a
-newline. The available atoms are:
-
-`objectname`::
-	The 40-hex object name of the object.
-
-`objecttype`::
-	The type of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports).
-
-`objectsize`::
-	The size, in bytes, of the object (the same as `cat-file -s`
-	reports).
+newline. The available atoms are the same as that of
+linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1], but there are some additional ones:
 
 `objectsize:disk`::
 	The size, in bytes, that the object takes up on disk. See the

--
https://github.com/git/git/pull/452
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