--------
[verse]
'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
- [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
+ [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
<tree-ish> [paths...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
-in the current working directory. Note that the usage is subtly different,
-though - 'paths' denote just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
-directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
-arguments does not matter.
+in the current working directory. Note that:
+
+ - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
+ 'paths' denote just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
+ directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
+ arguments does not matter.
+
+ - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the 'paths' is
+ taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you are
+ in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
+ ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
+ 'sub/dir' in 'HEAD'). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
+ root level (e.g. 'git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir') in this case, as that
+ would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit.
+ However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
+ --full-tree option.
OPTIONS
-------
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+ lines, show only a partial prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
--full-name::
Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
directory, show the full path names.
+--full-tree::
+ Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
+ Implies --full-name.
+
paths::
When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise