Re: [PATCH] Document the simple way of using of git-cat-file

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2006, 23:55 UTC
Message-ID: <elq3pa$93b$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061213232056.11218.67473.stgit@lathund.dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Since you can give a version and a path name to git-cat-file,
> mention it in the man page.

Very nice, with the exception that git cat-file can be used also for trees and commits (although hit-ls-tree and git-show are usually used) and for tags, not only for files.

I thought rather about copying last (or two last) entries about extended sha1 syntax from git-rev-parse(1).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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