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GIT-LS-TREE(1) Git Manual GIT-LS-TREE(1)
git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
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>...]
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.
<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\0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames.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 %% to %, and %xNN where NN are hex
digits interpolates to character with hex code NN; for example
%x00 interpolates to \0 (NUL), %x09 to \t (TAB) and %x0a to \n
(LF). When specified, --format cannot be combined with other
format-altering options, including --long, --name-only and
--object-only.
[<path>...]
When paths are given, show them (note that this isn’t really
raw pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).
Otherwise implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the
sole path argument.
The output format of ls-tree is determined by either the --format
option, or other format-altering options such as --name-only etc.
(see --format above).
The use of certain --format directives is equivalent to using
those options, but invoking the full formatting machinery can be
slower than using an appropriate formatting option.
In cases where the --format would exactly map to an existing
option ls-tree will use the appropriate faster path. Thus the
default format is equivalent to:
%(objectmode) %(objecttype) %(objectname)%x09%(path)
This output format is compatible with what --index-info --stdin of
git update-index expects.
When the -l option is used, format changes to
%(objectmode) %(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize:padded)%x09%(path)
Object size identified by <objectname> is given in bytes, and
right-justified with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is
given only for blobs (file) entries; for other entries - character
is used in place of size.
Without the -z option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
quoted as explained for the configuration variable core.quotePath
(see git-config(1)). Using -z the filename is output verbatim and
the line is terminated by a NUL byte.
Customized format:
It is possible to print in a custom format by using the --format
option, which is able to interpolate different fields using a
%(fieldname) notation. For example, if you only care about the
"objectname" and "path" fields, you can execute with a specific
"--format" like
git ls-tree --format='%(objectname) %(path)' <tree-ish>
Various values from structured fields can be used to interpolate
into the resulting output. For each outputting line, the following
names can be used:
objectmode
The mode of the object.
objecttype
The type of the object (commit, blob or tree).
objectname
The name of the object.
objectsize[:padded]
The size of a blob object ("-" if it’s a commit or tree). It
also supports a padded format of size with
"%(objectsize:padded)".
path
The pathname of the object.
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This page is part of the git (Git distributed version control
system) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/git/git.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time,
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