From: Shawn Pearce Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:00:28 GMT Subject: Re: git pull a subtree, embedded trees Message-ID: <20060913150028.GB29608@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <4508020F.2050604@sgi.com> Tim Shimmin wrote: > I've written a simple small program to dump out the index > entries (cache entries). `git-ls-files --stage` also dumps a number of those details, though it doesn't dump every available field. > I just want to see what is exactly stored in the .git > binary files and how they change when I do various git > operations. You may want to review some of the material in Documentation/core-tutorial.txt and Documentation/technical. These documents try to describe some of the formats but reviewing them now it looks like there's still some additional information that could be written down. -- Shawn.