git show

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

• Show information about the latest commit (hash, 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 HEAD of a branch:

git show {branch}~{3}

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

git show --oneline -s {commit}

• Show only statistics (added/removed characters) about the changed files:

git show --stat {commit}

• Show only the list of added, renamed or deleted files:

git show --summary {commit}

• Show the contents of a file as it was at a given revision (e.g. branch, tag or commit):

git show {revision}:{path/to/file}

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