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git-show(1)

NAME

git-show - Show various types of objects

SYNOPSIS

git show [<options>] [<object>…​]

DESCRIPTION

Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).

For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by git diff-tree --cc.

For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.

For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to git ls-tree with --name-only).

For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.

Some options that git log command understands can be used to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.

This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.

OPTIONS

<object>…​

The names of objects to show (defaults to HEAD). For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].

DIFF FORMATTING

The options below can be used to change the way git show generates diff output.

EXAMPLES

git show v1.0.0

Shows the tag v1.0.0, along with the object the tag points at.

git show v1.0.0^{tree}

Shows the tree pointed to by the tag v1.0.0.

git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^{commit}

Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the tag v1.0.0.

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

Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head of the branch master.

DISCUSSION

GIT

Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite