Even though "git hash-objects", which is a tool to take an
on-filesystem data stream and put it into the Git object store,
allowed to perform the "outside-world-to-Git" conversions (e.g.
end-of-line conversions and application of the clean-filter), and
it had the feature on by default from very early days, its reverse
operation "git cat-file", which takes an object from the Git object
store and externalize for the consumption by the outside world,
lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world"
conversion. The command learned the "--filters" option to do so.
* js/cat-file-filters:
cat-file: support --textconv/--filters in batch mode
cat-file --textconv/--filters: allow specifying the path separately
cat-file: introduce the --filters option
cat-file: fix a grammo in the man page
Junio C Hamano