Tree Object

A tree basically represents a folder in a traditional filesystem: nested containers for files or other folders.

A tree contains:

• 0 or more blob objects
• 0 or more tree objects

Just as you can use ls or dir to list the contents of a folder, you can list the contents of a tree object.

$ git cat-file -p 07b1a631
100644 blob b91bba1b   .gitignore
100644 blob cc0956f1   Makefile
040000 tree 92e1ca7e   src
...

You can look up the files in a commit by first finding the hash of the tree in the commit, and then looking at that tree:

$ git cat-file commit 4bb6f93a
tree 07b1a631
parent ...
author ...
commiter ... 
 
$ git cat-file -p 07b1a631
100644 blob b91bba1b   .gitignore
100644 blob cc0956f1   Makefile
040000 tree 92e1ca7e   src
...