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 28The command takes options applicable to the gitlink:git-diff-tree[1] 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 name of the object to show. 38 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see 39 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. 40 41include::pretty-formats.txt[] 42 43 44EXAMPLES 45-------- 46 47git show v1.0.0:: 48 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags 49 points at. 50 51git show v1.0.0^{tree}:: 52 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. 53 54git show next~10:Documentation/README 55 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as 56 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch 57 `next`. 58 59git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile 60 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head 61 of the branch `master`. 62 63Discussion 64---------- 65 66include::i18n.txt[] 67 68Author 69------ 70Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 71Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Significantly enhanced by 72Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>. 73 74 75Documentation 76------------- 77Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 78 79This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it. 80 81GIT 82--- 83Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 84