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diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index a113c359c1..958b56d8f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -4,23 +4,26 @@ v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- -git-ls-tree - Displays a tree object in human readable form +git-ls-tree - Lists the contents of a tree object. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-ls-tree' [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> [paths...] +'git-ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> [paths...] DESCRIPTION ----------- -Converts the tree object to a human readable (and script processable) -form. +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 @@ -28,18 +31,19 @@ OPTIONS \0 line termination on output paths:: - Optionally, restrict the output of git-ls-tree to specific - paths. Directories will only list their tree blob ids. - Implies -r. + When paths are given, shows them. Otherwise implicitly + uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument. + Output Format ------------- - <mode>\t <type>\t <object>\t <file> + <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 -------------- |