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6 git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
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9 git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
10 [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
11 <tree-ish> [<path>...]
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14 Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
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17 · the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that
18 the <path> denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so
19 specifying directory name (without -r) will behave differently, and
20 order of the arguments does not matter.
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22 · the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the <path> is
23 taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you
24 are in a directory sub that has a directory dir, you can run git
25 ls-tree -r HEAD dir to list the contents of the tree (that is
26 sub/dir in HEAD). You don’t want to give a tree that is not at the
27 root level (e.g. git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir) in this case, as
28 that would result in asking for sub/sub/dir in the HEAD commit.
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43 Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect if
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47 Show object size of blob (file) entries.
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50 \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames. See
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53 --name-only, --name-status
54 List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.
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57 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object lines, show
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71 When paths are given, show them (note that this isn’t really raw
72 pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise
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77 <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
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79 This output format is compatible with what --index-info --stdin of git
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84 <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
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86 Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and
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93 config(1)). Using -z the filename is output verbatim and the line is
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