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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt13
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index fb09cd69d6..5b234f6d15 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -186,17 +186,8 @@ linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
You can specify the information shown for each object by using a custom
`<format>`. The `<format>` is copied literally to stdout for each
object, with placeholders of the form `%(atom)` expanded, followed by a
-newline. The available atoms are:
-
-`objectname`::
- The 40-hex object name of the object.
-
-`objecttype`::
- The type of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports).
-
-`objectsize`::
- The size, in bytes, of the object (the same as `cat-file -s`
- reports).
+newline. The available atoms are the same as that of
+linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1], but there are some additional ones:
`objectsize:disk`::
The size, in bytes, that the object takes up on disk. See the