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   1git-ls-tree(1)
   2==============
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  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
  16DESCRIPTION
  17-----------
  18Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
  19in 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
  36OPTIONS
  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.
  57
  58--name-only::
  59--name-status::
  60        List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.
  61
  62--abbrev[=<n>]::
  63        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
  64        lines, show only a partial prefix.
  65        Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
  66
  67--full-name::
  68        Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
  69        directory, show the full path names.
  70
  71--full-tree::
  72        Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
  73        Implies --full-name.
  74
  75[<path>...]::
  76        When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
  77        pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
  78        implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
  79
  80
  81Output Format
  82-------------
  83        <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
  84
  85Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
  86in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
  87This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
  88'git update-index' expects.
  89
  90When the `-l` option is used, format changes to
  91
  92        <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
  93
  94Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
  95with minimum width of 7 characters.  Object size is given only for blobs
  96(file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
  97
  98GIT
  99---
 100Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite