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<commitid>:: 34 ID of the commit to show. 35 36include::pretty-formats.txt[] 37 38 39EXAMPLES 40-------- 41 42git show v1.0.0:: 43 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`. 44 45git show v1.0.0^{tree}:: 46 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. 47 48git show next~10:Documentation/README 49 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as 50 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch 51 `next`. 52 53git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile 54 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head 55 of the branch `master`. 56 57Author 58------ 59Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 60Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 61 62 63Documentation 64------------- 65Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 66 67This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it. 68 69GIT 70--- 71Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 72