GIT−LS−TREE

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

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

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 paths denote 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 paths 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.

<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.

paths

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.

<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.

Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz [1] > Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com [2] >, another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org [3] >

Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git−list <git@vger.kernel.org [4] >.

Part of the git(1) suite

1.

pasky@suse.cz

mailto:pasky@suse.cz

2.

gitster@pobox.com

mailto:gitster@pobox.com

3.

torvalds@osdl.org

mailto:torvalds@osdl.org

4.

git@vger.kernel.org

mailto:git@vger.kernel.org