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 'git-ls-tree' 24with \--name-only). 25 26For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents. 27 28The command takes options applicable to the 'git-diff-tree' command to 29control how the changes the commit introduces are shown. 30 31This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. 32 33 34OPTIONS 35------- 36<object>...:: 37 The names of objects 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 41include::pretty-options.txt[] 42 43 44include::pretty-formats.txt[] 45 46 47EXAMPLES 48-------- 49 50git show v1.0.0:: 51 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags 52 points at. 53 54git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}:: 55 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. 56 57git 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 62git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile:: 63 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head 64 of the branch `master`. 65 66Discussion 67---------- 68 69include::i18n.txt[] 70 71Author 72------ 73Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 74Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Significantly enhanced by 75Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>. 76 77 78Documentation 79------------- 80Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 81 82GIT 83--- 84Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite