GIT-LS-TREE(1)GIT-LS-TREE(1)NAMEgit-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
SYNOPSIS
git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
[--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
<tree-ish> [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
in the current working directory. Note that:
o the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that
the <path> denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so speci-
fying directory name (without -r) will behave differently, and order
of the arguments does not matter.
o 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 would result in asking for sub/sub/dir in the HEAD commit. How-
ever, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
--full-tree option.
OPTIONS
<tree-ish>
Id of a tree-ish.
-d Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children.
-r Recurse into sub-trees.
-t Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect
if -r was not passed. -d implies -t.
-l, --long
Show object size of blob (file) entries.
-z \0 line termination on output.
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GIT-LS-TREE(1)GIT-LS-TREE(1)--name-only, --name-status
List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per
line.
--abbrev[=<n>]
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 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 work-
ing directory, show the full path names.
--full-tree
Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
Implies --full-name.
[<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.
OUTPUT FORMAT
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
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
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justi-
fied 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
Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz: mailto:pasky@suse.cz> Completely
rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com:
mailto:gitster@pobox.com>, another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@osdl.org: mailto:torvalds@osdl.org>
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GIT-LS-TREE(1)GIT-LS-TREE(1)DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
<git@vger.kernel.org: mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
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