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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> I personally don't care much for the -t option, at the moment. I do
> think that tree identity is in some contexts more important than
> commit identity, so there will be instances where you really want to
> have a canonical way to "drill down" to the tree.

I do not know how useful it would be, but the onion peeler can
be told to dereference commit to tree.

$ ./git-cat-file -s 'v0.99.8^{tree}' 
6875
$ ./git-cat-file -s 'v0.99.8^{commit}' 
435
$ ./git-cat-file -t 'v0.99.8^{tree}' 
tree
$ ./git-cat-file -t 'v0.99.8^{commit}' 
commit
$ ./git-rev-parse v0.99.8 \
  v0.99.8^0 v0.99.8^{commit} \
  v0.99.8^{commit}^{tree} v0.99.8^{tree}
b041895af323bdef10cc9a718bda468ba3622bc0
91dd674e30ba0298e89c9be2657024805170c2ac
91dd674e30ba0298e89c9be2657024805170c2ac
bfd844a69bfd582d107622c27b89e9b959e89fd8
bfd844a69bfd582d107622c27b89e9b959e89fd8