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--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -3,20 +3,35 @@ git-ls-tree(1)
NAME
----
-git-ls-tree - Lists the contents of a tree object
+git-ls-tree - List the contents of a tree object
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-z] [--name-only] [--name-status] <tree-ish> [paths...]
+[verse]
+'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
+ [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]]
+ <tree-ish> [<path>...]
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
+ '<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.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -33,6 +48,10 @@ OPTIONS
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.
@@ -40,7 +59,20 @@ OPTIONS
--name-status::
List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.
-paths::
+--abbrev[=<n>]::
+ Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
+ lines, show only a partial prefix.
+ 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.
+
+[<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.
@@ -50,24 +82,19 @@ Output Format
-------------
<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
-When the `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
+Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
+This output format is compatible with what `--index-info --stdin` of
+'git update-index' expects.
+When the `-l` option is used, format changes to
-Author
-------
-Written by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
-Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
-another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
-<git@vger.kernel.org>.
+ <mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>
-This manual page is a stub. You can help the git documentation by expanding it.
+Object size identified by <object> 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.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite