6 git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
11 'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>
15 Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
16 is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type,
17 or '-s' is used to find the object size.
22 The name of the object to show.
23 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
24 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
27 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
31 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by
35 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object>
36 exists and is a valid object.
39 Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.
42 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
43 for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
44 <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a
45 "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it,
46 or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that
51 If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>.
53 If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes.
55 If '-e' is specified, no output.
57 If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.
59 Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
65 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
69 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
73 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite