git-ls-tree(1)

NAME

   git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object

SYNOPSIS

   git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
               [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
               <tree-ish> [<path>...]

DESCRIPTION

   Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
   in the current working directory. Note that:

   *   the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that
       the <path> denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so
       specifying directory name (without -r) will behave differently, and
       order of the arguments does not matter.

   *   the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the <path> is
       taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you
       are in a directory sub that has a directory dir, you can run git
       ls-tree -r HEAD dir to list the contents of the tree (that is
       sub/dir in HEAD). You don't 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 sub/sub/dir in the HEAD commit.
       However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
       --full-tree option.

OPTIONS

   <tree-ish>
       Id of a tree-ish.

   -d
       Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children.

   -r
       Recurse into sub-trees.

   -t
       Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect if
       -r was not passed.  -d implies -t.

   -l, --long
       Show object size of blob (file) entries.

   -z
       \0 line termination on output.

   --name-only, --name-status
       List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.

   --abbrev[=<n>]
       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>.

   --full-name
       Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
       directory, show the full path names.

   --full-tree
       Do not limit the listing to the current working directory. Implies
       --full-name.

   [<path>...]
       When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't 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.

OUTPUT FORMAT

       <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>

   Unless the -z option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters in
   pathnames are represented as \t, \n, and \\, respectively. This output
   format is compatible with what --index-info --stdin of git update-index
   expects.

   When the -l option is used, format changes to

       <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>

   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.

GIT

   Part of the git(1) suite

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