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cat-file: document -p option

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Jeff King 2006-05-24 21:22:32 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
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@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type information for repository objects
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | <type>] <object>
'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type,
is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type,
or '-s' is used to find the object size.
OPTIONS
@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ OPTIONS
Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object>
exists and is a valid object.
-p::
Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.
<type>::
Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes.
If '-e' is specified, no output.
If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.
Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
be returned.