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