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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 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