Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt

   1 git-ls-tree(1)
   2 ==============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
  13             [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
  14             <tree-ish> [<path>...]
  15
  16 DESCRIPTION
  17 -----------
  18 Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
  19 in the current working directory.  Note that:
  20
  21  - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
  22    '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
  23    directory name (without `-r`) will behave differently, and order of the
  24    arguments does not matter.
  25
  26  - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is
  27    taken as relative to the current working directory.  E.g. when you are
  28    in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
  29    ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
  30    `sub/dir` in `HEAD`).  You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
  31    root level (e.g. `git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir`) in this case, as that
  32    would result in asking for `sub/sub/dir` in the `HEAD` commit.
  33    However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
  34    --full-tree option.
  35
  36 OPTIONS
  37 -------
  38 <tree-ish>::
  39         Id of a tree-ish.
  40
  41 -d::
  42         Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children.
  43
  44 -r::
  45         Recurse into sub-trees.
  46
  47 -t::
  48         Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect
  49         if `-r` was not passed. `-d` implies `-t`.
  50
  51 -l::
  52 --long::
  53         Show object size of blob (file) entries.
  54
  55 -z::
  56         \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.
  57         See OUTPUT FORMAT below for more information.
  58
  59 --name-only::
  60 --name-status::
  61         List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.
  62
  63 --abbrev[=<n>]::
  64         Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
  65         lines, show only a partial prefix.
  66         Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
  67
  68 --full-name::
  69         Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
  70         directory, show the full path names.
  71
  72 --full-tree::
  73         Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
  74         Implies --full-name.
  75
  76 [<path>...]::
  77         When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
  78         pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
  79         implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
  80
  81
  82 Output Format
  83 -------------
  84         <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
  85
  86 This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
  87 'git update-index' expects.
  88
  89 When the `-l` option is used, format changes to
  90
  91         <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
  92
  93 Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
  94 with minimum width of 7 characters.  Object size is given only for blobs
  95 (file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
  96
  97 Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
  98 quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath`
  99 (see linkgit:git-config[1]).  Using `-z` the filename is output
 100 verbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
 101
 102 GIT
 103 ---
 104 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite