.. _geogig-cat:

geogig-cat documentation
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SYNOPSIS
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geogig cat <reference>


DESCRIPTION
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Displays a machine-readable, non-formatted description of the passed reference. The reference can be a feature, a tree, or a commit. In the case of a tree, the default feature type is described along with some other characteristics of the tree. Identical to ``geogig show --raw``.

To get a human-readable description of an element in a geogig repository, the ``show`` command can be used instead.

The reference can be a SHA-1, a full refspec, or just a path. If a path is used, it's assumed to refer to an element in the working head.


OPTIONS
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--binary   Shows binary output instead. 


SEE ALSO
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:ref:`geogig-show`

BUGS
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Discussion is still open.