Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Git Object Types

The video tutorial explains Git's file system and its four object types: BLOB, tree, commit, and annotated tag. It details how BLOBs store files, trees represent directories, commits track project versions, and annotated tags point to specific commits. The focus is on managing BLOBs and trees using Git commands like 'hash object' and 'cut file'. The tutorial concludes with a preview of creating a BLOB in a new Git project.

Which of the following is NOT a Git object type?

• Annotated Tag

• Branch

• Tree

• BLOB

What does a BLOB object in Git store?

• Directory information

• File versions

• Files of any type

• Commit history

In Git, what does a tree object represent?

• A commit

• A directory or folder

• A single file

• A tag

Which Git command is used to create a new object in the Git structure?

• git init

• git cat-file

• git hash-object

• git commit

What is the purpose of the 'git cat-file' command?

• To create a new branch

• To read Git objects

• To merge branches

• To initialize a Git repository