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NAME

6       git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository
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SYNOPSIS

10       git-cat-file [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>
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DESCRIPTION

13       Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type is
14       required unless -t or -p is used to find the object type, or -s is used
15       to find the object size.
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OPTIONS

18       <object>
19           The name of the object to show. For a more complete list of ways to
20           spell object names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in git-rev-
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39           Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking for a
40           type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given <object> is
41           also permitted. An example is to ask for a "tree" with <object>
42           being a commit object that contains it, or to ask for a "blob" with
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OUTPUT

46       If -t is specified, one of the <type>.
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AUTHOR

58       Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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DOCUMENTATION

61       Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
62       <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT

65       Part of the git(7) suite
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