On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:22:47PM +0530, karthik nayak wrote: > > > On 04/20/2015 02:49 PM, Charles Bailey wrote: > >As far as I could tell - and please correct me if I've misunderstood, > >cat-file's literally is about dealing with unrecognized types whereas > >hash-object's --literally is about both creating objects with bad types > >and invalid objects of "recognized" types. This latter scenario is where > >the option name "literally" makes the most sense. > Yes. What you're saying is correct, but it also makes sense as we're asking > "cat-file" to give us information about the object irrespective of the type of the > object, hence asking it to literally print the information. Also it stays as a compliment > to "hash-object --literally", which is already existing. OK, I think you've hit the main point which I was trying to make. To me, "literally" means "without transformation" or "exactly as written/recorded/transmitted" (which -t/-s do anyway) and doesn't really encompass the "irrespective of type" meaning that it has been given here. In any case, I've made my point so I won't labour it any further. I think that --no-validation or --allow-any-type might be more accurate but if everyone else is happy enough with --literally then I'm happy to live with that too. -- 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