Git: Mastering Version Control

Chapter 11. Git Plumbing and Attributes

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Displaying the repository information
• Displaying the tree information
• Displaying the file information
• Writing a blob object to the database
• Writing a tree object to the database
• Writing a commit object to the database
• Keyword expansion with attribute filters
• Metadata diff of binary files
• Storing binaries elsewhere
• Checking the attributes of a file
• Attributes for exporting an archive

Introduction

Git distinguishes between porcelain commands and plumbing commands. Porcelain commands are the ones you will normally use as add, commit, checkout, rebase, merge, and so on. Plumbing commands are all the helper functions that execute the low-level work. If you run git help ...