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 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