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 ID of the commit to show.
36 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
43 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`.
45 git show v1.0.0^{tree}::
46 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
48 git show next~10:Documentation/README
49 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
50 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
53 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
54 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
55 of the branch `master`.
59 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
60 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
65 Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
67 This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it.
71 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite