This is really excellent. I have now read it three times, running through the commands as I go, and for the first time I feel like I actually understand git.

This is really excellent. I have now read it three times, running through the commands as I go, and for the first time I feel like I actually understand git. Here are some commands I found useful as I went through the tutorial: To show a given commit without diffs but with tree and parent sha1s: git cat-file -p sha-1 To show a given commit including diffs: git show sha-1 To show a given tree (blobs and subtrees): git ls-tree sha-1 Show the tree recursively (i.e. show sha1 of all files, ignoring folder) git ls-tree -r sha-1