6 git-show - Show various types of objects
12 'git show' [options] <object>...
16 Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
18 For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
19 presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
22 For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
24 For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
27 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
29 The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
30 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
32 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
38 The names of objects to show.
39 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
40 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
42 include::pretty-options.txt[]
45 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
52 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
55 `git show v1.0.0^{tree}`::
56 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
58 `git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^{commit}`::
59 Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
62 `git show next~10:Documentation/README`::
63 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
64 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
67 `git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`::
68 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
69 of the branch `master`.
78 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite