SYNOPSIS

git-ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> [paths…]

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

<tree-ish>

Id of a tree.

-d

show only the named tree entry itself, not its children

-r

recurse into sub-trees

-z

\0 line termination on output

paths

When paths are given, shows them. Otherwise implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.

Output Format

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

Author

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Documentation

Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT

Part of the git(7) suite