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git-ls-tree(1)
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NAME
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git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object


SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'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
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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
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<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	\0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.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

Title: Git Ls-Tree Command
Summary
The git ls-tree command is used to list the contents of a tree object, similar to the Unix ls command, with various options to customize the output, such as recursion, long format, and object-only display.