From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Pipping Subject: Re: "git cat-file " shows usage but should not? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:56:05 +0200 Message-ID: <49E611A5.8090602@hartwork.org> References: <49E61067.6060802@hartwork.org> <20090415165420.GB24528@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 15 18:57:52 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 1Lu8Qf-0002zU-RV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:57:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752796AbZDOQ4J (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752743AbZDOQ4I (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:56:08 -0400 Received: from smtprelay11.ispgateway.de ([80.67.29.28]:39174 "EHLO smtprelay11.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752364AbZDOQ4I (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:56:08 -0400 Received: from [85.179.43.251] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay11.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Lu8P8-0004Pd-7B; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:56:06 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090216) In-Reply-To: <20090415165420.GB24528@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Df-Sender: 874396 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > That usage message is misleading. You need to use one of -t, -s, -e, -p, > or . So it should perhaps just be: > > git cat-file -t|-s|-e|-p| > > though that looks terribly ugly. Suggestions welcome. Thanks for making that clear. How about round or curly brackets? Sebastian