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

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:55:43 +0100

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).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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