Git: How to check which files exist (and their content) in a shared (bare) repository?

Question

I created a shared repo by:

git init --bare my_project.git

At some point, another user updated this repo with his changes (using git push).

How could I check which files are exist now in the shared repo and what is their content ?

In a local repo, I could do just ls and cat <some file>, but in the shared repo there is no working directory...

I could, but I want to know for learning purpose if there is an easy way. — Misha Moroshko, Oct 29 '11 at 09:45

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 30 '11 at 00:32

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You can find the files in the tree of a particular commit with git ls-tree, for example:

git ls-tree -r master

... would show the files in the tree of the commit at the tip of the master branch. Then, to "cat" a particular file, you can do:

git show master:docs/README

... supposing the master branch had a file called docs/README.

edited Oct 30 '11 at 00:32

Misha Moroshko

answered Oct 29 '11 at 09:45

Mark Longair

Excellent, Thanks! BTW, Did you mean `git ls-tree` on the first line? – Misha Moroshko Oct 29 '11 at 09:52
@MishaMoroshko: oops, yes indeed - thanks for the correction. – Mark Longair Oct 29 '11 at 10:07

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