1git-cat-file(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object> 12'git-cat-file' [--batch | --batch-check] < <list-of-objects> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16In the first form, provides content or type of objects in the repository. The 17type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s' 18is used to find the object size. 19 20In the second form, a list of object (separated by LFs) is provided on stdin, 21and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout. 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25<object>:: 26 The name of the object to show. 27 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 28 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. 29 30-t:: 31 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by 32 <object>. 33 34-s:: 35 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by 36 <object>. 37 38-e:: 39 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> 40 exists and is a valid object. 41 42-p:: 43 Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. 44 45<type>:: 46 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking 47 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given 48 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a 49 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, 50 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that 51 points at it. 52 53--batch:: 54 Print the SHA1, type, size, and contents of each object provided on 55 stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments. 56 57--batch-check:: 58 Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not be 59 combined with any other options or arguments. 60 61OUTPUT 62------ 63If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. 64 65If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. 66 67If '-e' is specified, no output. 68 69If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. 70 71If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> 72will be returned. 73 74If '--batch' is specified, output of the following form is printed for each 75object specified on stdin: 76 77------------ 78<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF 79<contents> LF 80------------ 81 82If '--batch-check' is specified, output of the following form is printed for 83each object specified fon stdin: 84 85------------ 86<sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF 87------------ 88 89For both '--batch' and '--batch-check', output of the following form is printed 90for each object specified on stdin that does not exist in the repository: 91 92------------ 93<object> SP missing LF 94------------ 95 96Author 97------ 98Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 99 100Documentation 101-------------- 102Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 103 104GIT 105--- 106Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite