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git-show-index(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-show-index - Show packed archive index
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SYNOPSIS
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2011-07-02 02:38:26 +00:00
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[verse]
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usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-16 18:27:42 +00:00
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'git show-index'
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DESCRIPTION
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2018-05-28 09:39:23 +00:00
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Read the `.idx` file for a Git packfile (created with
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linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] or linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) from the
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standard input, and dump its contents. The output consists of one object
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per line, with each line containing two or three space-separated
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columns:
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- the first column is the offset in bytes of the object within the
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corresponding packfile
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- the second column is the object id of the object
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- if the index version is 2 or higher, the third column contains the
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CRC32 of the object data
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The objects are output in the order in which they are found in the index
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file, which should be (in a correctly constructed file) sorted by object
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id.
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Note that you can get more information on a packfile by calling
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linkgit:git-verify-pack[1]. However, as this command considers only the
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index file itself, it's both faster and more flexible.
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GIT
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---
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2008-06-06 07:07:32 +00:00
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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