From: Phil Hord Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:53:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1430312006-23323-1-git-send-email-karthik.188@gmail.com> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:01 AM Karthik Nayak wrote: > > Currently 'git cat-file' throws an error while trying to > print the type or size of a broken/corrupt object. This is > because these objects are usually of unknown types. > > Teach git cat-file a '--allow-unkown-type' option where it prints > the type or size of a broken/corrupt object without throwing > an error. In this entire series, replace all 'unkown' with 'unknown' in both the commit messages and the code ("unknown" is misspelled most of the time). I notice the switch name itself is misspelled, but also variable names such as 'unkown_type' in this patch. Respectfully, because I know English is a challenging beast sometimes, and spelling is difficult even for many native speakers...