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.
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
To show the content of the current tree in the Git context, we can use the ls-tree command. We'll pass --abbrev to the command to limit the SHA-1 ID to its abbreviated form. This is usually seven characters:
$ git ls-tree --abbrev HEAD 100644 blob f21dc28 README.md 040000 tree abc267d a_sub_directory 100644 blob b50f80a...