Documentation/git-show.txt

   1 git-show(1)
   2 ===========
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-show - Show various types of objects
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git show' [options] <object>...
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
  16
  17 For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
  18 presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
  19 'git-diff-tree --cc'.
  20
  21 For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
  22
  23 For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to linkgit:git-ls-tree[1]
  24 with \--name-only).
  25
  26 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
  27
  28 The command takes options applicable to the linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] command to
  29 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
  30
  31 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
  32
  33
  34 OPTIONS
  35 -------
  36 <object>::
  37         The name of the object to show.
  38         For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
  39         "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
  40
  41 include::pretty-options.txt[]
  42
  43
  44 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
  45
  46
  47 EXAMPLES
  48 --------
  49
  50 git show v1.0.0::
  51         Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
  52         points at.
  53
  54 git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
  55         Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
  56
  57 git show next~10:Documentation/README::
  58         Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
  59         they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
  60         `next`.
  61
  62 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
  63         Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
  64         of the branch `master`.
  65
  66 Discussion
  67 ----------
  68
  69 include::i18n.txt[]
  70
  71 Author
  72 ------
  73 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
  74 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.  Significantly enhanced by
  75 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
  76
  77
  78 Documentation
  79 -------------
  80 Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  81
  82 GIT
  83 ---
  84 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite