1git-cat-file(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-cat-file' (-t | -s | <type>) <object> 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type 16is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type, 17or '-s' is used to find the object size. 18 19OPTIONS 20------- 21<object>:: 22 The sha1 identifier of the object. 23 24-t:: 25 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by 26 <object>. 27 28-s:: 29 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by 30 <object>. 31 32<type>:: 33 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking 34 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given 35 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a 36 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, 37 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that 38 points at it. 39 40OUTPUT 41------ 42If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. If '-s' is specified, 43the size of the <object> in bytes. 44 45Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will 46be returned. 47 48 49Author 50------ 51Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 52 53Documentation 54-------------- 55Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 56 57GIT 58--- 59Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 60