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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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The blob object

Now, we can investigate the blob (file) object. We can do this using the same command, giving the blob ID as the target for the cat-me.txt file:

$ git cat-file -p 92f046f17079aa82c924a9acf28d623fcb6ca727

The content of the file is cat-me.txt.

Not really that exciting, huh?

This is simply the content of the file, which we can also get by running a normal cat cat-me.txt command. So, the objects are tied together, blobs to trees, trees to other trees, and the root tree to the commit object, all connected by the SHA-1 identifier of the object.

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