--------
[verse]
'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
- [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
- <tree-ish> [paths...]
+ [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
+ <tree-ish> [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
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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
+ '<path>' denotes 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
+ - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' 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
+ 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.
Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
Implies --full-name.
-paths::
+[<path>...]::
When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise
implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
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<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
-When the `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
+Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
+This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
+'git update-index' expects.
When the `-l` option is used, format changes to
with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs
(file) entries; for other entries `-` character is used in place of size.
-
-Author
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-Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
-Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
-another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
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