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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: junkio@cox.net
Subject: [PATCH] Update git-cat-file documentation
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:26:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45befa72.48e904b7.4b64.ffffd83b@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11701438362085-git-send-email->

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> - unquoted

Update git-cat-file documentation with references for different
ways of specifying <objects>

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 7e90ce9..075c0d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ or '-s' is used to find the object size.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <object>::
-	The sha1 identifier of the object.
+	The name of the object to show.
+	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
+	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
 
 -t::
 	Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
-- 
1.5.0.rc2.75.gdbaa0-dirty

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <11701438112263-git-send-email->
2007-01-30  7:56 ` [PATCH] blameview: Use git-cat-file to read the file content Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found] ` <11701438241247-git-send-email->
2007-01-30  7:56   ` [PATCH] blameview: Support browsable functionality to blameview Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-01-30 10:33     ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]   ` <11701438362085-git-send-email->
2007-01-30  7:56     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]

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