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.TH "GIT\-LS\-TREE" "1" "04/04/2016" "Git 2\&.8\&.0" "Git Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
git-ls-tree \- List the contents of a tree object
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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.nf
\fIgit ls\-tree\fR [\-d] [\-r] [\-t] [\-l] [\-z]
            [\-\-name\-only] [\-\-name\-status] [\-\-full\-name] [\-\-full\-tree] [\-\-abbrev[=<n>]]
            <tree\-ish> [<path>\&...]
.fi
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls \-a" does in the current working directory\&. Note that:
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.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
\fI<path>\fR
denotes just a list of patterns to match, e\&.g\&. so specifying directory name (without
\fI\-r\fR) will behave differently, and order of the arguments does not matter\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the
\fI<path>\fR
is taken as relative to the current working directory\&. E\&.g\&. when you are in a directory
\fIsub\fR
that has a directory
\fIdir\fR, you can run
\fIgit ls\-tree \-r HEAD dir\fR
to list the contents of the tree (that is
\fIsub/dir\fR
in
\fIHEAD\fR)\&. You don\(cqt want to give a tree that is not at the root level (e\&.g\&.
git ls\-tree \-r HEAD:sub dir) in this case, as that would result in asking for
\fIsub/sub/dir\fR
in the
\fIHEAD\fR
commit\&. However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing \-\-full\-tree option\&.
.RE
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
<tree\-ish>
.RS 4
Id of a tree\-ish\&.
.RE
.PP
\-d
.RS 4
Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children\&.
.RE
.PP
\-r
.RS 4
Recurse into sub\-trees\&.
.RE
.PP
\-t
.RS 4
Show tree entries even when going to recurse them\&. Has no effect if
\fI\-r\fR
was not passed\&.
\fI\-d\fR
implies
\fI\-t\fR\&.
.RE
.PP
\-l, \-\-long
.RS 4
Show object size of blob (file) entries\&.
.RE
.PP
\-z
.RS 4
\e0 line termination on output\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-name\-only, \-\-name\-status
.RS 4
List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-abbrev[=<n>]
.RS 4
Instead of showing the full 40\-byte hexadecimal object lines, show only a partial prefix\&. Non default number of digits can be specified with \-\-abbrev=<n>\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-full\-name
.RS 4
Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working directory, show the full path names\&.
.RE
.PP
\-\-full\-tree
.RS 4
Do not limit the listing to the current working directory\&. Implies \-\-full\-name\&.
.RE
.PP
[<path>\&...]
.RS 4
When paths are given, show them (note that this isn\(cqt really raw pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match)\&. Otherwise implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument\&.
.RE
.SH "OUTPUT FORMAT"
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.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Unless the \-z option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters in pathnames are represented as \et, \en, and \e\e, respectively\&. This output format is compatible with what \-\-index\-info \-\-stdin of \fIgit update\-index\fR expects\&.
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When the \-l option is used, format changes to
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.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
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Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right\-justified with minimum width of 7 characters\&. Object size is given only for blobs (file) entries; for other entries \- character is used in place of size\&.
.SH "GIT"
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Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite