[PATCH 2/2] docs: update behavior of git-cat-file --buffer
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From: John Cai via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-05 21:56:47
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Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: John Cai <redacted> When an empty string is entered into stdin, git-cat-file --buffer will flush stdout immediately. This commit updates the man page accordingly. Signed-off-by: John Cai <redacted> --- Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 27b27e2b300..c98e8dc3669 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ OPTIONS that a process can interactively read and write from `cat-file`. With this option, the output uses normal stdio buffering; this is much more efficient when invoking - `--batch-check` on a large number of objects. + `--batch-check` on a large number of objects. An empty string will + force a flush of stdout. --unordered:: When `--batch-all-objects` is in use, visit objects in an
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