1git-cat-file(1) 2=============== 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-cat-file' (-t | <type>) <object> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type 17is required if '-t' is not being used to find the object type. 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<type>:: 29 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking 30 for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given 31 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a 32 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, 33 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that 34 points at it. 35 36OUTPUT 37------ 38If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. 39 40Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will 41be returned. 42 43 44Author 45------ 46Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 47 48Documentation 49-------------- 50Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 51 52GIT 53--- 54Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 55