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20 .TH "GIT-CAT-FILE" 1 "" "" ""
22 git-cat-file \- Provide content or type information for repository objects
26 \fIgit\-cat\-file\fR [\-t | \-s | \-e | \-p | <type>] <object>
31 Provides content or type of objects in the repository\&. The type is required unless \fI\-t\fR or \fI\-p\fR is used to find the object type, or \fI\-s\fR is used to find the object size\&.
37 The sha1 identifier of the object\&.
41 Instead of the content, show the object type identified by <object>\&.
45 Instead of the content, show the object size identified by <object>\&.
49 Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid object\&.
53 Pretty\-print the contents of <object> based on its type\&.
57 Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given <object> is also permitted\&. An example is to ask for a "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that points at it\&.
62 If \fI\-t\fR is specified, one of the <type>\&.
65 If \fI\-s\fR is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes\&.
68 If \fI\-e\fR is specified, no output\&.
71 If \fI\-p\fR is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty\-printed\&.
74 Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned\&.
79 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl\&.org>
84 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git\-list <git@vger\&.kernel\&.org>\&.
89 Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite