Hi, Philip Oakley wrote: > Does `hash-object` do the inverese of `cat-file commit`? > > I didn't find the hash-object(1) man page very informative on that matter Hm. The manpage says: Computes the object ID value for an object with specified type with the contents of the named file [...], and optionally writes the resulting object into the object database. And then: -w Actually write the object into the object database. Any ideas for making this clearer? Thanks, Jonathan -- 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