July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
10h 57m
English
book
Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition
by Kenneth Geisshirt, Emanuele Zattin(EUR), Aske Olsson, Rasmus Voss
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The branch object
The branch object is not really like any other Git objects; you can't print it using the cat-file command as we can with the others (if you specify the -p pretty print, you'll just get the commit object it points to), as shown in the following code:
$ git cat-file master
usage: git cat-file (-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>|--textconv) <object>
or: git cat-file (--batch|--batch-check) < <list_of_objects>
<type> can be one of: blob, tree, commit, tag.
...
$ git cat-file -p master
tree 34fa038544bcd9aed660c08320214bafff94150b
parent a90d1906337a6d75f1dc32da647931f932500d83
...
Instead, we can take a look at the branch inside the .git folder where the whole Git repository is stored. If we open the text file .git/refs/heads/master, we can ...
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