For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
+The command takes options applicable to the gitlink:git-diff-tree[1] command to
+control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
+
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
OPTIONS
-------
-<commitid>::
- ID of the commit to show.
+<object>::
+ The name of the object to show.
+ For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
+ "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
include::pretty-formats.txt[]
--------
git show v1.0.0::
- Shows the tag `v1.0.0`.
+ Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
+ points at.
-git show v1.0.0^{tree}::
+git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
-git show next~10:Documentation/README
+git show next~10:Documentation/README::
Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
`next`.
-git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
+git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
of the branch `master`.
+Discussion
+----------
+
+include::i18n.txt[]
+
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Significantly enhanced by
+Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
Documentation