Plumbings command are a low level commands which give access to the inner workings of Git (in contrast to more user friendly “porcelain” commands)
manipulators
- git hash-object: compute the SHA hash of a Git object. When used with
-w
, also write the object into.git/objects
- git write-tree: creates a tree object from staging area
- git commit-tree: creates a commit object from a tree object and a message
interrogators
- git cat-file: view an git object file
- git ls-tree: inspect a tree object