1git-write-blob(1) 2================= 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-write-blob - Creates a blob from a file 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-write-blob' <any-file-on-the-filesystem> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Writes the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the work 17tree) as a blob into the object database, and reports its object ID to its 18standard output. This is used by "git-merge-one-file-script" to update the 19cache without modifying files in the work tree. 20 21 22Author 23------ 24Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 25 26Documentation 27-------------- 28Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 29 30GIT 31--- 32Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 33