GIT-LS-TREE(1)                                                  GIT-LS-TREE(1)



NAME
       git-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
          specifying 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&#8217;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
       <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.


       --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
              working 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&#8217;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-justified 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.


GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite




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