From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Pipping Subject: "git cat-file " shows usage but should not? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:50:47 +0200 Message-ID: <49E61067.6060802@hartwork.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 15 18:52:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lu8Ld-0000k4-7o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:52:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbZDOQuv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:50:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752590AbZDOQuv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:50:51 -0400 Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.14]:48219 "EHLO smtprelay02.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097AbZDOQuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:50:50 -0400 Received: from [85.179.43.251] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Lu8K0-0001Xe-B8 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:50:48 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090216) X-Df-Sender: 874396 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Here is what I did: $ git cat-file -t b8c11fbbffbe171c4960058fa2d96f708e57a80c commit $ git cat-file b8c11fbbffbe171c4960058fa2d96f708e57a80c usage: git cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|] or: git cat-file [--batch|--batch-check] < [..] $ git --version git version 1.6.3.rc0.1.gf800.dirty Sebastian