[PATCH] cat-file: be consistent in usage string and documentation.

Junio C Hamano· Jul 14, 2005, 03:23 UTC · lore

Now that we have something called tag object, and a notion of "tags" stored in .git/refs/tags/ directory, the word "tagname" has become misleading in the usage string. The documentation already calls that <type>.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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 cat-file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/cat-file.c b/cat-file.c
--- a/cat-file.c
+++ b/cat-file.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	unsigned long size;
 
 	if (argc != 3 || get_sha1(argv[2], sha1))
-		usage("git-cat-file [-t | -s | tagname] <sha1>");
+		usage("git-cat-file [-t | -s | <type>] <sha1>");
 
 	if (!strcmp("-t", argv[1]) || !strcmp("-s", argv[1])) {
 		if (!sha1_object_info(sha1, type,

patchcat-file: be consistent in usage string and documentation.