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406 git-show(
1) Manual Page
409 <div class=
"sectionbody">
411 Show various types of objects
415 <h2 id=
"_synopsis">SYNOPSIS
</h2>
416 <div class=
"sectionbody">
417 <div class=
"paragraph"><p><em>git show
</em> [options]
<object
>…</p></div>
419 <h2 id=
"_description">DESCRIPTION
</h2>
420 <div class=
"sectionbody">
421 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
</p></div>
422 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
423 presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
424 <em>git diff-tree --cc
</em>.
</p></div>
425 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
</p></div>
426 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to
<em>git ls-tree
</em>
427 with --name-only).
</p></div>
428 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
</p></div>
429 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The command takes options applicable to the
<em>git diff-tree
</em> command to
430 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
</p></div>
431 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
</p></div>
433 <h2 id=
"_options">OPTIONS
</h2>
434 <div class=
"sectionbody">
435 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
437 <object
>…
441 The names of objects to show.
442 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
443 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in
<a href=
"gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(
7)
</a>.
447 --pretty[=
<format
>]
450 --format=
<format
>
454 Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
455 where
<em><format
></em> can be one of
<em>oneline
</em>,
<em>short
</em>,
<em>medium
</em>,
456 <em>full
</em>,
<em>fuller
</em>,
<em>email
</em>,
<em>raw
</em> and
<em>format:
<string
></em>. See
457 the
"PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details for each
458 format. When omitted, the format defaults to
<em>medium
</em>.
460 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
461 configuration (see
<a href=
"git-config.html">git-config(
1)
</a>).
</p></div>
468 Instead of showing the full
40-byte hexadecimal commit object
469 name, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of
470 digits can be specified with
"--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
471 diff output, if it is displayed).
473 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This should make
"--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
474 people using
80-column terminals.
</p></div>
481 This is a shorthand for
"--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
486 --encoding[=
<encoding
>]
490 The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
491 in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
492 command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
493 preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
501 --show-notes[=
<ref
>]
505 Show the notes (see
<a href=
"git-notes.html">git-notes(
1)
</a>) that annotate the
506 commit, when showing the commit log message. This is the default
507 for
<tt>git log
</tt>,
<tt>git show
</tt> and
<tt>git whatchanged
</tt> commands when
508 there is no
<tt>--pretty
</tt>,
<tt>--format
</tt> nor
<tt>--oneline
</tt> option is
509 given on the command line.
511 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>With an optional argument, add this ref to the list of notes. The ref
512 is taken to be in
<tt>refs/notes/
</tt> if it is not qualified.
</p></div>
515 --[no-]standard-notes
519 Enable or disable populating the notes ref list from the
520 <em>core.notesRef
</em> and
<em>notes.displayRef
</em> variables (or
521 corresponding environment overrides). Enabled by default.
522 See
<a href=
"git-config.html">git-config(
1)
</a>.
527 <h2 id=
"_pretty_formats">PRETTY FORMATS
</h2>
528 <div class=
"sectionbody">
529 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format
530 is not
<em>oneline
</em>,
<em>email
</em> or
<em>raw
</em>, an additional line is
531 inserted before the
<em>Author:
</em> line. This line begins with
532 "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed,
533 separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not
534 necessarily be the list of the
<strong>direct
</strong> parent commits if you
535 have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
536 only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
538 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>There are several built-in formats, and you can define
539 additional formats by setting a pretty.
<name
>
540 config option to either another format name, or a
541 <em>format:
</em> string, as described below (see
542 <a href=
"git-config.html">git-config(
1)
</a>). Here are the details of the
543 built-in formats:
</p></div>
544 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
549 <div class=
"literalblock">
550 <div class=
"content">
551 <pre><tt><sha1
> <title line
></tt></pre>
553 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This is designed to be as compact as possible.
</p></div>
559 <div class=
"literalblock">
560 <div class=
"content">
561 <pre><tt>commit
<sha1
>
562 Author:
<author
></tt></pre>
564 <div class=
"literalblock">
565 <div class=
"content">
566 <pre><tt><title line
></tt></pre>
573 <div class=
"literalblock">
574 <div class=
"content">
575 <pre><tt>commit
<sha1
>
576 Author:
<author
>
577 Date:
<author date
></tt></pre>
579 <div class=
"literalblock">
580 <div class=
"content">
581 <pre><tt><title line
></tt></pre>
583 <div class=
"literalblock">
584 <div class=
"content">
585 <pre><tt><full commit message
></tt></pre>
592 <div class=
"literalblock">
593 <div class=
"content">
594 <pre><tt>commit
<sha1
>
595 Author:
<author
>
596 Commit:
<committer
></tt></pre>
598 <div class=
"literalblock">
599 <div class=
"content">
600 <pre><tt><title line
></tt></pre>
602 <div class=
"literalblock">
603 <div class=
"content">
604 <pre><tt><full commit message
></tt></pre>
611 <div class=
"literalblock">
612 <div class=
"content">
613 <pre><tt>commit
<sha1
>
614 Author:
<author
>
615 AuthorDate:
<author date
>
616 Commit:
<committer
>
617 CommitDate:
<committer date
></tt></pre>
619 <div class=
"literalblock">
620 <div class=
"content">
621 <pre><tt><title line
></tt></pre>
623 <div class=
"literalblock">
624 <div class=
"content">
625 <pre><tt><full commit message
></tt></pre>
632 <div class=
"literalblock">
633 <div class=
"content">
634 <pre><tt>From
<sha1
> <date
>
636 Date:
<author date
>
637 Subject: [PATCH]
<title line
></tt></pre>
639 <div class=
"literalblock">
640 <div class=
"content">
641 <pre><tt><full commit message
></tt></pre>
648 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The
<em>raw
</em> format shows the entire commit exactly as
649 stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
650 displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
651 --no-abbrev are used, and
<em>parents
</em> information show the
652 true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
653 simplification into account.
</p></div>
657 <em>format:
<string
></em>
659 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The
<em>format:
<string
></em> format allows you to specify which information
660 you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
661 with the notable exception that you get a newline with
<em>%n
</em>
662 instead of
<em>\n
</em>.
</p></div>
663 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>E.g,
<em>format:
"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<%n"</em>
664 would show something like this:
</p></div>
665 <div class=
"listingblock">
666 <div class=
"content">
667 <pre><tt>The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano,
23 hours ago
668 The title was
>>t4119: test autocomputing -p
<n
> for traditional diff input.
<<</tt></pre>
670 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The placeholders are:
</p></div>
671 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
674 <em>%H
</em>: commit hash
679 <em>%h
</em>: abbreviated commit hash
684 <em>%T
</em>: tree hash
689 <em>%t
</em>: abbreviated tree hash
694 <em>%P
</em>: parent hashes
699 <em>%p
</em>: abbreviated parent hashes
704 <em>%an
</em>: author name
709 <em>%aN
</em>: author name (respecting .mailmap, see
<a href=
"git-shortlog.html">git-shortlog(
1)
</a> or
<a href=
"git-blame.html">git-blame(
1)
</a>)
714 <em>%ae
</em>: author email
719 <em>%aE
</em>: author email (respecting .mailmap, see
<a href=
"git-shortlog.html">git-shortlog(
1)
</a> or
<a href=
"git-blame.html">git-blame(
1)
</a>)
724 <em>%ad
</em>: author date (format respects --date= option)
729 <em>%aD
</em>: author date, RFC2822 style
734 <em>%ar
</em>: author date, relative
739 <em>%at
</em>: author date, UNIX timestamp
744 <em>%ai
</em>: author date, ISO
8601 format
749 <em>%cn
</em>: committer name
754 <em>%cN
</em>: committer name (respecting .mailmap, see
<a href=
"git-shortlog.html">git-shortlog(
1)
</a> or
<a href=
"git-blame.html">git-blame(
1)
</a>)
759 <em>%ce
</em>: committer email
764 <em>%cE
</em>: committer email (respecting .mailmap, see
<a href=
"git-shortlog.html">git-shortlog(
1)
</a> or
<a href=
"git-blame.html">git-blame(
1)
</a>)
769 <em>%cd
</em>: committer date
774 <em>%cD
</em>: committer date, RFC2822 style
779 <em>%cr
</em>: committer date, relative
784 <em>%ct
</em>: committer date, UNIX timestamp
789 <em>%ci
</em>: committer date, ISO
8601 format
794 <em>%d
</em>: ref names, like the --decorate option of
<a href=
"git-log.html">git-log(
1)
</a>
799 <em>%e
</em>: encoding
809 <em>%f
</em>: sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
819 <em>%B
</em>: raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
824 <em>%N
</em>: commit notes
829 <em>%gD
</em>: reflog selector, e.g.,
<tt>refs/stash@{
1}
</tt>
834 <em>%gd
</em>: shortened reflog selector, e.g.,
<tt>stash@{
1}
</tt>
839 <em>%gs
</em>: reflog subject
844 <em>%Cred
</em>: switch color to red
849 <em>%Cgreen
</em>: switch color to green
854 <em>%Cblue
</em>: switch color to blue
859 <em>%Creset
</em>: reset color
864 <em>%C(
…)
</em>: color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option
869 <em>%m
</em>: left, right or boundary mark
879 <em>%%
</em>: a raw
<em>%
</em>
884 <em>%x00
</em>: print a byte from a hex code
889 <em>%w([
<w
>[,
<i1
>[,
<i2
>]]])
</em>: switch line wrapping, like the -w option of
890 <a href=
"git-shortlog.html">git-shortlog(
1)
</a>.
896 <div class=
"admonitionblock">
899 <div class=
"title">Note
</div>
901 <td class=
"content">Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
902 revision traversal engine. For example, the
<tt>%g*
</tt> reflog options will
903 insert an empty string unless we are traversing reflog entries (e.g., by
904 <tt>git log -g
</tt>). The
<tt>%d
</tt> placeholder will use the
"short" decoration
905 format if
<tt>--decorate
</tt> was not already provided on the command line.
</td>
908 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you add a
<tt>+</tt> (plus sign) after
<em>%
</em> of a placeholder, a line-feed
909 is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
910 placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
</p></div>
911 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you add a
<tt>-
</tt> (minus sign) after
<em>%
</em> of a placeholder, line-feeds that
912 immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
913 placeholder expands to an empty string.
</p></div>
914 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you add a ` ` (space) after
<em>%
</em> of a placeholder, a space
915 is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
916 placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
</p></div>
917 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
922 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The
<em>tformat:
</em> format works exactly like
<em>format:
</em>, except that it
923 provides
"terminator" semantics instead of
"separator" semantics. In
924 other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
925 newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
926 This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
927 terminated with a new line, just as the
"oneline" format does.
928 For example:
</p></div>
929 <div class=
"listingblock">
930 <div class=
"content">
931 <pre><tt>$ git log -
2 --pretty=format:%h
4da45bef \
932 | perl -pe '$_ .=
" -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
934 7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
936 $ git log -
2 --pretty=tformat:%h
4da45bef \
937 | perl -pe '$_ .=
" -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
941 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>In addition, any unrecognized string that has a
<tt>%
</tt> in it is interpreted
942 as if it has
<tt>tformat:
</tt> in front of it. For example, these two are
943 equivalent:
</p></div>
944 <div class=
"listingblock">
945 <div class=
"content">
946 <pre><tt>$ git log -
2 --pretty=tformat:%h
4da45bef
947 $ git log -
2 --pretty=%h
4da45bef
</tt></pre>
952 <h2 id=
"_examples">EXAMPLES
</h2>
953 <div class=
"sectionbody">
954 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
960 Shows the tag
<tt>v1.0
.0</tt>, along with the object the tags
965 git show v1.0
.0^{tree}
969 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag
<tt>v1.0
.0</tt>.
973 git show -s --format=%s v1.0
.0^{commit}
977 Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
982 git show next~
10:Documentation/README
986 Shows the contents of the file
<tt>Documentation/README
</tt> as
987 they were current in the
10th last commit of the branch
992 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
996 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
997 of the branch
<tt>master
</tt>.
1002 <h2 id=
"_discussion">Discussion
</h2>
1003 <div class=
"sectionbody">
1004 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic.
</p></div>
1005 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
1008 The pathnames recorded in the index and in the tree objects
1009 are treated as uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes.
1010 What readdir(
2) returns are what are recorded and compared
1011 with the data git keeps track of, which in turn are expected
1012 to be what lstat(
2) and creat(
2) accepts. There is no such
1013 thing as pathname encoding translation.
1018 The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences
1019 of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core
1025 The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL
1030 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded
1031 in UTF-
8, both the core and git Porcelain are designed not to
1032 force UTF-
8 on projects. If all participants of a particular
1033 project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git
1034 does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in
1036 <div class=
"olist arabic"><ol class=
"arabic">
1039 <em>git commit
</em> and
<em>git commit-tree
</em> issues
1040 a warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
1041 like a valid UTF-
8 string, unless you explicitly say your
1042 project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to
1043 have i18n.commitencoding in
<tt>.git/config
</tt> file, like this:
1045 <div class=
"listingblock">
1046 <div class=
"content">
1048 commitencoding = ISO-
8859-
1</tt></pre>
1050 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
1051 of
<tt>i18n.commitencoding
</tt> in its
<tt>encoding
</tt> header. This is to
1052 help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
1053 implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-
8.
</p></div>
1057 <em>git log
</em>,
<em>git show
</em>,
<em>git blame
</em> and friends look at the
1058 <tt>encoding
</tt> header of a commit object, and try to re-code the
1059 log message into UTF-
8 unless otherwise specified. You can
1060 specify the desired output encoding with
1061 <tt>i18n.logoutputencoding
</tt> in
<tt>.git/config
</tt> file, like this:
1063 <div class=
"listingblock">
1064 <div class=
"content">
1066 logoutputencoding = ISO-
8859-
1</tt></pre>
1068 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
1069 <tt>i18n.commitencoding
</tt> is used instead.
</p></div>
1072 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
1073 message when a commit is made to force UTF-
8 at the commit
1074 object level, because re-coding to UTF-
8 is not necessarily a
1075 reversible operation.
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"_git">GIT
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1078 <div class=
"sectionbody">
1079 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Part of the
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"git.html">git(
1)
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