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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 48b612e2ae..4e617e6979 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-show - Show various types of objects SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git show' [options] <object>... DESCRIPTION @@ -16,16 +17,16 @@ Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits). For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by -'git-diff-tree --cc'. +'git diff-tree --cc'. For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects. -For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git-ls-tree' +For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree' with \--name-only). For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents. -The command takes options applicable to the 'git-diff-tree' command to +The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown. This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. @@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS <object>...:: The names of objects to show. For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see - "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. + "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. include::pretty-options.txt[] @@ -44,22 +45,35 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] include::pretty-formats.txt[] +COMMON DIFF OPTIONS +------------------- + +:git-log: 1 +include::diff-options.txt[] + +include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] + + EXAMPLES -------- -git show v1.0.0:: +`git show v1.0.0`:: Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags points at. -git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}:: +`git show v1.0.0^{tree}`:: Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`. -git show next~10:Documentation/README:: +`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^{commit}`:: + Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the + tag `v1.0.0`. + +`git show next~10:Documentation/README`:: Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch `next`. -git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile:: +`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`:: Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head of the branch `master`. @@ -68,17 +82,6 @@ Discussion include::i18n.txt[] -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and -Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Significantly enhanced by -Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>. - - -Documentation -------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |