1git-hash-object(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>] [--stdin] [--] <file>... 13'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths < <list-of-paths> 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Computes the object ID value for an object with specified type 18with the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the 19work tree), and optionally writes the resulting object into the 20object database. Reports its object ID to its standard output. 21This is used by 'git-cvsimport' to update the index 22without modifying files in the work tree. When <type> is not 23specified, it defaults to "blob". 24 25OPTIONS 26------- 27 28-t <type>:: 29 Specify the type (default: "blob"). 30 31-w:: 32 Actually write the object into the object database. 33 34--stdin:: 35 Read the object from standard input instead of from a file. 36 37--stdin-paths:: 38 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. 39 40--path:: 41 Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of 42 file does not directly influence on the hash value, but path is 43 used to determine what git filters should be applied to the object 44 before it can be placed to the object database, and, as result of 45 applying filters, the actual blob put into the object database may 46 differ from the given file. This option is mainly useful for hashing 47 temporary files located outside of the working directory or files 48 read from stdin. 49 50Author 51------ 52Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 53 54Documentation 55-------------- 56Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 57 58GIT 59--- 60Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite