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asdfaoeu on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git's initial commit

You can just see the structure with git cat-file

    -> % git cat-file -p 8c48d1a36c3d11db44c75a431d4f09cb0035222f
    tree 288c2d5379768f685f391bdbffd31b8965318c63
    parent 002ae35061beef02453b7fb1045a50fa2f7f30f8
    author Denis Bilenko <[email protected]> 1246939605 +0700
    committer Denis Bilenko <[email protected]> 1246939605 +0700

    MANIFEST.in: include libevent.h and libevent-internal.h
    -> % git cat-file -p 288c2d5379768f685f391bdbffd31b8965318c63
    100644 blob 6e543dc13df1b556fd95530061ac0c77a9178309.hgignore
    100644 blob 79c7beb2227ce149c7a71e58e2f7379071b7a189MANIFEST.in
    100644 blob 0d05178544942a035a82599900bec27fbac1c9c5README.eventlet
    040000 tree edb8f37fa622315dcf7bf4f7316d5e85c48cfdbdexamples
    040000 tree 64cf252d77a4162099442bb0153985fc20ed5ba3gevent
    040000 tree 261052e04b4aece469b2e767e394aafbc9d88a32greentest
    100644 blob 488e805c563dfeeb6af5e7a1a8953b706d9676e3setup.py
    -> % git cat-file -p 6e543dc13df1b556fd95530061ac0c77a9178309
    syntax: glob
    *~
    *.pyc
    *.orig
    dist
    gevent.egg-info
    build
    htmlreports
    results.*.db
    gevent/core.so

And yeah it's still very similar though it currently doesn't store the objects individually but rather packs them together.

alblue on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

I wrote about the format of git trees (and other object types) here:

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/08/git-tip-of-week-trees.html

coldpie on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

While it looks arcane, this comes in handy enough when grepping through history that I actually have "cat-file -p" aliased to 'cf'.

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