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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index c3fdccb4c2..16e87fd6dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] - [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]] - <tree-ish> [paths...] + [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]] + <tree-ish> [<path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -19,16 +19,16 @@ 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 + '<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 'paths' is + - 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 + 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. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ OPTIONS Do not limit the listing to the current working directory. Implies --full-name. -paths:: +[<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. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Output Format 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 +This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of 'git update-index' expects. When the `-l` option is used, format changes to @@ -95,18 +95,6 @@ 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. - -Author ------- -Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> -Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, -another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list -<git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |