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Depending on what shell you use, you may encounter errors when using the `master^{tree}` syntax.

In PowerShell or CMD on Windows, the `^` character is used for escaping, so you have to double it to avoid this: `git cat-file -p mater^^{tree}`.

If you're using ZSH, the `^` character is used for globbing, so you have to enclose the whole expression in quotes: `git cat-file -p "master^{tree}"`
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Oh man, I hate to do this to you again, but I have one last request (I promise). Looking at how this renders in context:

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The "here's what you should do, and here's what it looks like when you do it" flow is interrupted by this note block. Could you move it just below the code block?

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Sure no problem

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Hope these formatting rules are defined somewhere so that people could just read and follow it.

Conceptually, the data that Git is storing looks something like this:

.Simple version of the Git data model.
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