git-mktree - Man Page

• Build a tree object and verify that each tree entry’s hash identifies an existing object: git mktree
• Allow missing objects: git mktree --missing
• Read the NUL ([z]ero character) terminated output of the tree object (ls-tree -z): git mktree -z
• Allow the creation of multiple tree objects: git mktree --batch
• Sort and build a tree from stdin (non-recursive git ls-tree output format is required): git mktree < path/to/tree.txt

tldr.sh

git mktree [-z] [--missing] [--batch]

Reads standard input in non-recursive ls-tree output format, and creates a tree object. The order of the tree entries is normalized by mktree so pre-sorting the input is not required. The object name of the tree object built is written to the standard output.

-z

Read the NUL-terminated ls-tree -z output instead.

--missing

Allow missing objects. The default behaviour (without this option) is to verify that each tree entry’s hash identifies an existing object. This option has no effect on the treatment of gitlink entries (aka "submodules") which are always allowed to be missing.

--batch

Allow building of more than one tree object before exiting. Each tree is separated by a single blank line. The final newline is optional. Note - if the -z option is used, lines are terminated with NUL.

Part of the git(1) suite

git(1), git-merge-tree(1).