> From: Jirong Hu <jirong...@gmail.com>
> 
> $ git cat-file -p master^{tree}
> fatal: Not a valid object name master^{tree}
> 
> I am reading the GIT Pro and GIT Internal. The command above doesn't work. 
> Can you help to fix it?

My guess is that "master" is a branch name, and so is a commit, not a
tree.  Since "master" isn't a tag, it can't be dereferenced.  But in a
lot of situations, it seems that a commit identifier can be used where
a tree identifier is expected, and the command will obtain the tree
within the commit.

Dale

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