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 | -e | <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-e:: 33 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> 34 exists and is a valid object. 35 36<type>:: 37 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking 38 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given 39 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a 40 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, 41 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that 42 points at it. 43 44OUTPUT 45------ 46If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. 47 48If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. 49 50If '-e' is specified, no output. 51 52Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will 53be returned. 54 55 56Author 57------ 58Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 59 60Documentation 61-------------- 62Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 63 64GIT 65--- 66Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 67