1git-ls-tree(1) 2============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] 13 [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]] 14 <tree-ish> [<path>...] 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does 19in the current working directory. Note that: 20 21 - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the 22 '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying 23 directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the 24 arguments does not matter. 25 26 - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is 27 taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you are 28 in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git 29 ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is 30 'sub/dir' in 'HEAD'). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the 31 root level (e.g. `git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir`) in this case, as that 32 would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit. 33 However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing 34 --full-tree option. 35 36OPTIONS 37------- 38<tree-ish>:: 39 Id of a tree-ish. 40 41-d:: 42 Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children. 43 44-r:: 45 Recurse into sub-trees. 46 47-t:: 48 Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect 49 if '-r' was not passed. '-d' implies '-t'. 50 51-l:: 52--long:: 53 Show object size of blob (file) entries. 54 55-z:: 56 \0 line termination on output. 57 58--name-only:: 59--name-status:: 60 List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line. 61 62--abbrev[=<n>]:: 63 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 64 lines, show only a partial prefix. 65 Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. 66 67--full-name:: 68 Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working 69 directory, show the full path names. 70 71--full-tree:: 72 Do not limit the listing to the current working directory. 73 Implies --full-name. 74 75[<path>...]:: 76 When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw 77 pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise 78 implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument. 79 80 81Output Format 82------------- 83 <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file> 84 85Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters 86in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively. 87This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of 88'git update-index' expects. 89 90When the `-l` option is used, format changes to 91 92 <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file> 93 94Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified 95with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs 96(file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size. 97 98 99Author 100------ 101Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 102Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, 103another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 104 105Documentation 106-------------- 107Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list 108<git@vger.kernel.org>. 109 110GIT 111--- 112Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite