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git cat-file on a submodule

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David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Date
Jan 11, 2017, 00:11 UTC
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<1484093500.17967.6.camel@frank>
Why does git cat-file -t $sha:foo, where foo is a submodule, not work? 
git rev-parse $sha:foo works.

By "why", I mean "would anyone complain if I fixed it?" FWIW, I think -p should just return the submodule's sha.

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