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cat-file: document -p option
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano committed May 25, 2006
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SYNOPSIS
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'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | <type>] <object>
'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>

DESCRIPTION
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Provides content or type of objects in the repository. The type
is required unless '-t' is used to find the object type,
is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type,
or '-s' is used to find the object size.

OPTIONS
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Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object>
exists and is a valid object.

-p::
Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.

<type>::
Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking
for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given
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If '-e' is specified, no output.

If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.

Otherwise the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> will
be returned.

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