On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Li Hong wrote: > > When using 'git cat-file' recently, I find its option interface is somewhat > inconvenient or mistakenly-designed. You likely shouldn't use 'cat-file' at all. Have you looked at 'git show'? That's the command meant for human beings. 'git cat-file' is really really low-level plumbing. Humans should generally never use it. It's one of the original git commands (it was literally in the original git commit), and it does some really low-level stuff that is good for scripting but not for any normal use. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html