diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index 4c7262f1cd..1f89d36800 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] - [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev=[<n>]] + [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]] <tree-ish> [paths...] DESCRIPTION @@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ in the current working directory. Note that: 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 + 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 ------- @@ -59,13 +61,17 @@ OPTIONS --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. + 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 @@ -76,8 +82,10 @@ Output Format ------------- <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file> -When the `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters +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 |