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From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git cat-file <sha1>" shows usage but should not?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:56:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E611A5.8090602@hartwork.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415165420.GB24528@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> That usage message is misleading. You need to use one of -t, -s, -e, -p,
> or <type>. So it should perhaps just be:
> 
>   git cat-file -t|-s|-e|-p|<type> <sha1>
> 
> though that looks terribly ugly. Suggestions welcome.

Thanks for making that clear.  How about round or curly brackets?



Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15 16:50 "git cat-file <sha1>" shows usage but should not? Sebastian Pipping
2009-04-15 16:54 ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 16:56   ` Sebastian Pipping [this message]
2009-04-15 17:04     ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 17:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-15 17:34         ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 17:33       ` Julian Phillips
2009-04-15 17:36         ` Jeff King

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