Question

The command git show is extremely useful, including for listing directories, but its output in listing a directory causes some problems. For example, consider the following.

user@machine$ git show HEAD:src/
tree HEAD:src/

file0
dir0/
file1
etc/
...

The problem, here, is that it prints tree HEAD:src/ and a blank line. I could easily split on the blank line, and take only the directory listing, but this seems needlessly complex. I cannot use any other system tools, like tr or similar. I can only use git.

Thank you all!

Answer 1

Try ls-tree command instead:

git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD src/

-r instructs ls-tree to be recursive and --name-only simplifies output.