tldr/pages/common/git-show.md

git show

Show various types of Git objects (commits, tags, etc.). More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show.

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

git show

• Show information about a specific commit, tag, or branch (such as HEAD for the latest commit):

git show {{commit|tag|branch}}

• 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|--no-patch]}} {{commit}}

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

git show --stat {{commit}}

• Show a simplified list of all files changed in a commit (modified, added, and deleted):

git show --name-only {{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}}