You can just see the structure with git cat-file -> % git cat-file -p 8c48d1a36c3d11db44c75a431d4f09cb0035222f tree 288c2d5379768f685f391bdbffd31b89653

You can just see the structure with git cat-file -> % git cat-file -p 8c48d1a36c3d11db44c75a431d4f09cb0035222f tree 288c2d5379768f685f391bdbffd31b8965318c63 parent 002ae35061beef02453b7fb1045a50fa2f7f30f8 author Denis Bilenko <denis.bilenko@gmail.com> 1246939605 +0700 committer Denis Bilenko <denis.bilenko@gmail.com> 1246939605 +0700 MANIFEST.in: include libevent.h and libevent-internal.h -> % git cat-file -p 288c2d5379768f685f391bdbffd31b8965318c63 100644 blob 6e543dc13df1b556fd95530061ac0c77a9178309.hgignore 100644 blob 79c7beb2227ce149c7a71e58e2f7379071b7a189MANIFEST.in 100644 blob 0d05178544942a035a82599900bec27fbac1c9c5README.eventlet 040000 tree edb8f37fa622315dcf7bf4f7316d5e85c48cfdbdexamples 040000 tree 64cf252d77a4162099442bb0153985fc20ed5ba3gevent 040000 tree 261052e04b4aece469b2e767e394aafbc9d88a32greentest 100644 blob 488e805c563dfeeb6af5e7a1a8953b706d9676e3setup.py -> % git cat-file -p 6e543dc13df1b556fd95530061ac0c77a9178309 syntax: glob *~ *.pyc *.orig dist gevent.egg-info build htmlreports results.*.db gevent/core.so And yeah it's still very similar though it currently doesn't store the objects individually but rather packs them together.