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1git-show(1)
2===========
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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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7791a1d9 11[verse]
de613050 12'git show' [<options>] [<object>...]
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14DESCRIPTION
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16Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
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18For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
19presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
0b444cdb 20'git diff-tree --cc'.
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22For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
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0b444cdb 24For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
1c262bb7 25with --name-only).
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27For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
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0b444cdb 29The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
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30control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
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32This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
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35OPTIONS
36-------
f448e24e 37<object>...::
9f5258cb 38 The names of objects to show (defaults to 'HEAD').
41a5564e 39 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
9d83e382 40 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
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42include::pretty-options.txt[]
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44
5d1faf87 45include::pretty-formats.txt[]
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5d7eeee2 47
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48COMMON DIFF OPTIONS
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50
51:git-log: 1
52include::diff-options.txt[]
53
54include::diff-generate-patch.txt[]
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56
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57EXAMPLES
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5d2fc913 60`git show v1.0.0`::
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61 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
62 points at.
5d7eeee2 63
6cf378f0 64`git show v1.0.0^{tree}`::
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65 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
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6cf378f0 67`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^{commit}`::
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68 Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
69 tag `v1.0.0`.
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5d2fc913 71`git show next~10:Documentation/README`::
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72 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
73 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
74 `next`.
75
5d2fc913 76`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`::
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77 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
78 of the branch `master`.
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76a8788c 80DISCUSSION
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81----------
82
83include::i18n.txt[]
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85GIT
86---
9e1f0a85 87Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite