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   1git-show(1)
   2===========
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-show - Show various types of objects
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11[verse]
  12'git show' [options] <object>...
  13
  14DESCRIPTION
  15-----------
  16Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
  17
  18For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
  19presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
  20'git diff-tree --cc'.
  21
  22For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
  23
  24For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
  25with \--name-only).
  26
  27For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
  28
  29The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
  30control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
  31
  32This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
  33
  34
  35OPTIONS
  36-------
  37<object>...::
  38        The names of objects to show.
  39        For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
  40        "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
  41
  42include::pretty-options.txt[]
  43
  44
  45include::pretty-formats.txt[]
  46
  47
  48EXAMPLES
  49--------
  50
  51`git show v1.0.0`::
  52        Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
  53        points at.
  54
  55`git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}`::
  56        Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
  57
  58`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}`::
  59        Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
  60        tag `v1.0.0`.
  61
  62`git show next~10:Documentation/README`::
  63        Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
  64        they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
  65        `next`.
  66
  67`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`::
  68        Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
  69        of the branch `master`.
  70
  71Discussion
  72----------
  73
  74include::i18n.txt[]
  75
  76GIT
  77---
  78Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite