NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

  1. git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
  2.         [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
  3.         <tree-ish> [<path>…​]

DESCRIPTION

Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" doesin the current working directory. Note that:

  • the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifyingdirectory name (without -r) will behave differently, and order of thearguments does not matter.

  • the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the istaken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you arein a directory sub that has a directory dir, you can run gitls-tree -r HEAD dir to list the contents of the tree (that issub/dir in HEAD). You don’t want to give a tree that is not at theroot level (e.g. git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir) in this case, as thatwould 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

  • 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 effectif -r was not passed. -d implies -t.

  • -l

  • —long

  • Show object size of blob (file) entries.

  • -z

  • \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.See OUTPUT FORMAT below for more information.

  • —name-only

  • —name-status

  • List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.

  • —abbrev[=]

  • Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal objectlines, show only a partial prefix.Non default number of digits can be specified with —abbrev=.

  • —full-name

  • Instead of showing the path names relative to the current workingdirectory, show the full path names.

  • —full-tree

  • Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.Implies —full-name.

  • […​]

  • When paths are given, show them (note that this isn’t really rawpathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwiseimplicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.

Output Format

  1. <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>

This output format is compatible with what —index-info —stdin ofgit update-index expects.

When the -l option is used, format changes to

  1. <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>

Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justifiedwith minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs(file) entries; for other entries - character is used in place of size.

Without the -z option, pathnames with "unusual" characters arequoted as explained for the configuration variable core.quotePath(see git-config[1]). Using -z the filename is outputverbatim and the line is terminated by a NUL byte.

GIT

Part of the git[1] suite