> On 9/23/2016 4:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm aware of things like "git cat-file -p" and so on, but is there > > some magic incantation to display the git object store > > graphically/hierarchically? > > > > […] > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 09:45:56AM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > git log --graph --decorate --all Add --oneline to that. However, it still doesn't show the git objects themselves. > > but it would be useful to be able to *see* the underlying structure so > > the class can be truly convinced as to what just happened. git ls-tree -r --full-tree and git show-ref kinda helps, but you want an all-inclusive view, right? Sorted how? Branches could complicate this. Imagine that commits were under commits… the indentation would kill you. Were you imagining something like this instead? [commit] 7427c1e7fb81ac7f069246e5ca8b074dc850ed16 (HEAD,master) `- [parent] 0aee3aece23105d0b4bf8fb4e172d74d1f00b8d0 ` [tree] 753bf03d7f191a400a5d96095fde229040178ce3 `- 100644 blob a25ed43485aa213ecfce71a8df43f33ab0b8964b .XCompose 100644 blob 664369d3b581c88b6900b076cdb702983153e7c1 .agignore 100644 blob 25f4d5280c90cc26a9d77fb6198c6e909f7275cc .asoundrc […] [commit] 0aee3aece23105d0b4bf8fb4e172d74d1f00b8d0 (HEAD~) `- […] Would probably want these to be --topo-sorted.