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   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:gitrevisions[7].
  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 -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::
  58        Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
  59        tag `v1.0.0`.
  60
  61git show next~10:Documentation/README::
  62        Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
  63        they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
  64        `next`.
  65
  66git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
  67        Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
  68        of the branch `master`.
  69
  70Discussion
  71----------
  72
  73include::i18n.txt[]
  74
  75Author
  76------
  77Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
  78Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.  Significantly enhanced by
  79Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
  80
  81
  82Documentation
  83-------------
  84Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  85
  86GIT
  87---
  88Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite