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1git-show(1)
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4NAME
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5d7eeee2 6git-show - Show various types of objects
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9SYNOPSIS
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b1889c36 11'git show' [options] <object>...
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13DESCRIPTION
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15Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
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17For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
18presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
19'git-diff-tree --cc'.
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21For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
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5162e697 23For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to linkgit:git-ls-tree[1]
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24with \--name-only).
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26For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
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5162e697 28The command takes options applicable to the linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] command to
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29control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
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31This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
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34OPTIONS
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36<object>::
37 The name of the object to show.
41a5564e 38 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
5162e697 39 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
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41include::pretty-options.txt[]
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5d1faf87 44include::pretty-formats.txt[]
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47EXAMPLES
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50git show v1.0.0::
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51 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
52 points at.
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7ee70a71 54git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
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55 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
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7ee70a71 57git show next~10:Documentation/README::
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58 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
59 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
60 `next`.
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7ee70a71 62git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
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63 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
64 of the branch `master`.
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66Discussion
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68
69include::i18n.txt[]
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71Author
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73Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
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74Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Significantly enhanced by
75Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
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78Documentation
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80Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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82GIT
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9e1f0a85 84Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite