Displaying the tree information
It can sometimes be useful to show or find information on certain trees and files in Git. Here, the ls-tree and diff-tree commands come in handy. Essentially, these are plumbing commands, and they can sometimes be very useful when scripting or browsing.
Getting ready
We'll use the same repository as the previous example:
$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/data-model.git
We also need a bare repository for some examples; it will by default, with the --bare option, be cloned to data-model.git, so remember which repository you are currently working on:
$ git clone --bare https://github.com/dvaske/data-model.git $ cd data-model
How to do it...
To show the content of the current tree in the Git context, we can use the ...
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