GIT-LS-TREE(1)			  Git Manual			GIT-LS-TREE(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
       git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
		   [--name-only] [--name-status] [--object-only] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--format=<format>]
		   <tree-ish> [<path>...]


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

       o   the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that
	   the <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.

       o   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 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
       <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	   \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.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.
	   Cannot be combined with --object-only.

       --object-only
	   List only names of the objects, one per line. Cannot be combined
	   with --name-only or --name-status. This is equivalent to specifying
	   --format='%(objectname)', but for both this option and that exact
	   format the command takes a hand-optimized codepath instead of going
	   through the generic formatting mechanism.

       --abbrev[=<n>]
	   Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object lines, show
	   the shortest prefix that is at least <n> hexdigits long that
	   uniquely refers the object. 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.

       --format=<format>
	   A string that interpolates %(fieldname) from the result being
	   shown. It also interpolates %% to %, and %xx where xx are hex
	   digits interpolates to character with hex code xx; for example %00
	   interpolates to \0 (NUL), %09 to \t (TAB) and %0a to \n (LF). When
	   specified, --format cannot be combined with other format-altering
	   options, including --long, --name-only and --object-only.

       [<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.

OUTPUT FORMAT
       The output format of ls-tree is determined by either the --format
       option, or other format-altering options such as --name-only etc. (see
       --format above).

       The use of certain --format directives is equivalent to using those
       options, but invoking the full formatting machinery can be slower than
       using an appropriate formatting option.

       In cases where the --format would exactly map to an existing option
       ls-tree will use the appropriate faster path. Thus the default format
       is equivalent to:

	   %(objectmode) %(objecttype) %(objectname)%x09%(path)

       This output format is compatible with what --index-info --stdin of git
       update-index expects.

       When the -l option is used, format changes to

	   %(objectmode) %(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize:padded)%x09%(path)

       Object size identified by <objectname> 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.

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

       Customized format:

       It is possible to print in a custom format by using the --format
       option, which is able to interpolate different fields using a
       %(fieldname) notation. For example, if you only care about the
       "objectname" and "path" fields, you can execute with a specific
       "--format" like

	   git ls-tree --format='%(objectname) %(path)' <tree-ish>

FIELD NAMES
       Various values from structured fields can be used to interpolate into
       the resulting output. For each outputing line, the following names can
       be used:

       objectmode
	   The mode of the object.

       objecttype
	   The type of the object (commit, blob or tree).

       objectname
	   The name of the object.

       objectsize[:padded]
	   The size of a blob object ("-" if it's a commit or tree). It also
	   supports a padded format of size with "%(objectsize:padded)".

       path
	   The pathname of the object.

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