Example
A tree basically represents a folder in a traditional filesystem: nested containers for files or other folders.
A tree contains:
- 0 or more
blobobjects - 0 or more
treeobjects
Just as you can use ls or dir to list the contents of a folder, you can list the contents of a tree object.
$ git cat-file -p 07b1a631
100644 blob b91bba1b .gitignore
100644 blob cc0956f1 Makefile
040000 tree 92e1ca7e src
...
You can look up the files in a commit by first finding the hash of the tree in the commit, and then looking at that tree:
$ git cat-file commit 4bb6f93a
tree 07b1a631
parent ...
author ...
commiter ...
$ git cat-file -p 07b1a631
100644 blob b91bba1b .gitignore
100644 blob cc0956f1 Makefile
040000 tree 92e1ca7e src
...
