X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-ls-tree.txt;h=4c7262f1cd82ca8d9ea6be638d23b18d9bba3738;hb=0fe8c1381043ef64fce1b8372df19046a4b1518e;hp=1cdec222a1998d90df750d7dfeb8f9b528965aed;hpb=fcab40a389e99786a8276108cdbc1cda8caf502f;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index 1cdec222a..4c7262f1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -16,10 +16,20 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Lists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does -in the current working directory. Note that the usage is subtly different, -though - 'paths' denote 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. +in the current working directory. Note that: + + - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the + 'paths' denote 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 'paths' 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. OPTIONS ------- @@ -81,7 +91,7 @@ with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs Author ------ Written by Petr Baudis -Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano , +Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano , another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds Documentation