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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition
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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

by Kenneth Geisshirt, Emanuele Zattin(EUR), Aske Olsson, Rasmus Voss
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
10h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works...

As we learned previously, the add command creates the blob, tree, and commit objects; however, they are also created when we run the commit command. We can view these objects using the cat-file command, as we saw in the previous recipe:

$ git cat-file -p HEAD
tree 162201200b5223d48ea8267940c8090b23cbfb60
parent 13dcada077e446d3a05ea9cdbc8ecc261a94e42d
author John Doe <john.doe@example.com> 1524163792 +0200
committer John Doe <john.doe@example.com> 1524163792 +0200

Making changes to another file.

The root-tree object from the commit is as follows:

$ git cat-file -p HEAD^{tree}
100644 blob f21dc2804e888fee6014d7e5b1ceee533b222c15  README.md
040000 tree abc267d04fb803760b75be7e665d3d69eeed32f8  a_sub_directory
100644 blob 35d31106c5d6fdb38c6b1a6fb43a90b183011a4b ...
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