git/Documentation/git-show.txt
Michael J Gruber f028cdae66 Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.

Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:13 -07:00

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git-show(1)
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NAME
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git-show - Show various types of objects
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git show' [options] <object>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
'git diff-tree --cc'.
For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
with \--name-only).
For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
OPTIONS
-------
<object>...::
The names of objects to show.
For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
include::pretty-options.txt[]
include::pretty-formats.txt[]
EXAMPLES
--------
git show v1.0.0::
Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
points at.
git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
git show next~10:Documentation/README::
Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
`next`.
git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
of the branch `master`.
Discussion
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include::i18n.txt[]
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Significantly enhanced by
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite