diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 4c7262f1cd..db6ebccd6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
-	    [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
+	    [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
 	    <tree-ish> [paths...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ in the current working directory.  Note that:
    '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
 -------
@@ -66,6 +68,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	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.
+
 paths::
 	When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
 	pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
diff --git a/builtin-ls-tree.c b/builtin-ls-tree.c
index cb61717685..5b63e6eada 100644
--- a/builtin-ls-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-ls-tree.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static int chomp_prefix;
 static const char *ls_tree_prefix;
 
 static const char ls_tree_usage[] =
-	"git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev[=<n>]] <tree-ish> [path...]";
+	"git ls-tree [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev[=<n>]] <tree-ish> [path...]";
 
 static int show_recursive(const char *base, int baselen, const char *pathname)
 {
@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ int cmd_ls_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				chomp_prefix = 0;
 				break;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(argv[1]+2, "full-tree")) {
+				ls_tree_prefix = prefix = NULL;
+				chomp_prefix = 0;
+				break;
+			}
 			if (!prefixcmp(argv[1]+2, "abbrev=")) {
 				abbrev = strtoul(argv[1]+9, NULL, 10);
 				if (abbrev && abbrev < MINIMUM_ABBREV)