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20 .TH "GIT-CAT-FILE" 1 "" "" ""
22 git-cat-file \- Provide content or type information for repository objects
26 git\-cat\-file (\-t | \-s | \-e | <type>) <object>
31 Provides content or type of objects in the repository\&. The type is required unless \-t is used to find the object type, or \-s 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 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\&.
58 If \-t is specified, one of the <type>\&.
61 If \-s is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes\&.
64 If \-e is specified, no output\&.
67 Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will be returned\&.
72 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl\&.org>
77 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git\-list <git@vger\&.kernel\&.org>\&.
82 Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite