On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:19:18PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> git show master >> git show master:Documentation >> git show master:Makefile >> > I don't believe you need to know about trees and blobs to make sense of > that. Those are just directories and files. The whole idea that trees > are a more-general thing that could be used to represent something other > than directory structure and blobs could be used to represent something > other than file contents is way below most peoples' need-to-know > threshold. Actually, it is not the generally of trees that I think is interesting there, but the generality of _objects_. That is, each of those things is a first-class object, and has a unique name by which it can be referred. The examples above are just _one_ of the ways you can refer to the same objects. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html