7 git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects
12 'git-cat-file' (-t | -s | <type>) <object>
16 Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
17 is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type,
18 or '-s' is used to find the object size.
23 The sha1 identifier of the object.
26 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
30 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
34 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
35 for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given
36 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a
37 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it,
38 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that
43 If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. If '-s' is specified,
44 the size of the <object> in bytes.
46 Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
52 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
56 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
60 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite