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NAME top

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

SYNOPSIS top

   _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 top

   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 _<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
       _<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 top

   <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       \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.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 %xNN where **NN** are hex
       digits interpolates to character with hex code **NN**; for example
       %x00 interpolates to \0 (NUL), %x09 to \t (TAB) and %x0a 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 top

   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)](../man1/git-config.1.html)). 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 top

   Various values from structured fields can be used to interpolate
   into the resulting output. For each outputting 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.

GIT top

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