A tree can refer to one or more "blob" objects, each corresponding to
a file. In addition, a tree can also refer to other tree objects,
-thus creating a directory heirarchy. You can examine the contents of
+thus creating a directory hierarchy. You can examine the contents of
any tree using ls-tree (remember that a long enough initial portion
of the SHA1 will also work):
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$ git ls-tree d0492b36
100644 blob a0423896973644771497bdc03eb99d5281615b51 file.txt
-$ git cat-file commit a0423896
+$ git cat-file blob a0423896
hello world!
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$ git cat-file -t 513feba2
blob
$ git cat-file blob 513feba2
+hello world!
hello world, again
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In addition to being the staging area for new commits, the index file
is also populated from the object database when checking out a
branch, and is used to hold the trees involved in a merge operation.
-See the link:core-tutorial.txt[core tutorial] and the relevant man
+See the link:core-tutorial.html[core tutorial] and the relevant man
pages for details.
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