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 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type 16is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, 17or '-s' is used to find the object size. 18 19OPTIONS 20------- 21<object>:: 22 The name of the object to show. 23 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 24 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. 25 26-t:: 27 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by 28 <object>. 29 30-s:: 31 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by 32 <object>. 33 34-e:: 35 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> 36 exists and is a valid object. 37 38-p:: 39 Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. 40 41<type>:: 42 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking 43 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given 44 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a 45 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, 46 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that 47 points at it. 48 49OUTPUT 50------ 51If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. 52 53If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. 54 55If '-e' is specified, no output. 56 57If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. 58 59Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will 60be returned. 61 62 63Author 64------ 65Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 66 67Documentation 68-------------- 69Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 70 71GIT 72--- 73Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite