From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:55:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check
Message-ID: <20130902215545.GA2668@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <66A16BF0137D40568A34C316DDA6D32E@PhilipOakley>

Hi,

Philip Oakley wrote:

> Does `hash-object` do the inverese of `cat-file commit`?
>
> I didn't find the hash-object(1) man page very informative on that matter

Hm.  The manpage says:

	Computes the object ID value for an object with specified type
	with the contents of the named file [...], and optionally writes
	the resulting object into the object database.

And then:

	-w
		Actually write the object into the object database.

Any ideas for making this clearer?

Thanks,
Jonathan