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 `git-ls-tree`
26 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
28 The command takes options applicable to the `git-diff-tree` command to
29 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
31 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
37 The name of the object to show.
38 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
39 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
41 include::pretty-options.txt[]
44 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
51 Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
54 git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
55 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
57 git show next~10:Documentation/README::
58 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
59 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
62 git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
63 Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
64 of the branch `master`.
73 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
74 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Significantly enhanced by
75 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
80 Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
84 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite