6 git-show - Show various types of objects
11 'git-show' [options] <object>...
15 Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
17 For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
18 presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
21 For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
23 For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to gitlink:git-ls-tree[1]
26 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
28 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
34 The name of the object to show.
35 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
36 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
38 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
45 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
48 git show v1.0.0^{tree}::
49 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
51 git show next~10:Documentation/README
52 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
53 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
56 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
57 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
58 of the branch `master`.
67 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
68 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Significantly enhanced by
69 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
74 Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
76 This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it.
80 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite