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

1 messages from 2005-07-14 to 2005-07-14. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1224

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-07-14 03:23

Subject: [PATCH] cat-file: be consistent in usage string and documentation.
Message-ID: <7vvf3ekr43.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vvf3ekr43.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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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>
---

 cat-file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

61a4ebfb09cee6955f80a863b9651204ba17117a
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,

```
