tldr/pages/common/git-show.md
Waldir Pimenta 5cb62ebbff git-show: various tweaks (#1341)
- adjust punctuation & spacing in main description
- adjust descriptions ("changes" --> "information", and explicitly list which info is returned in the first example)
- use a concrete example for the tilde notation
- add abbreviated example
2017-04-19 21:25:28 +01:00

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git show

Show various types of git objects (commits, tags, etc.).

  • Show information about the latest commit (message, changes, and other metadata):

git show

  • Show information about a given commit:

git show {{commit}}

  • Show information about the commit associated with a given tag:

git show {{tag}}

  • Show information about the 3rd commit from the tip of a branch:

git show {{branch}}~{{3}}

  • Show a commit's hash and message in a single line, suppressing the diff output:

git show --oneline -s {{commit}}