[description] Construct a chain of three trees, which don't point to anything else. This is hard! The `git mktree` command might be useful. [setup] [setup goal] git mktree TREE=$(echo -e "040000 tree 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904\tdir" | git mktree) echo -e "040000 tree $TREE\tdir" | git mktree [win] TREES=$(git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectname) %(objecttype)' --batch-all-objects | grep tree | cut -f1 -d" ") for TREE in $TREES; do if [ "$(git cat-file -p $TREE | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]; then if [ "$(git cat-file -p $TREE | cut -f1 | grep tree | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]; then # So the tree has exactly one child, and it is a tree! TREE2=$(git cat-file -p $TREE | cut -f1 | grep tree | cut -f3 -d" ") if [ "$(git cat-file -p $TREE2 | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]; then if [ "$(git cat-file -p $TREE2 | cut -f1 | grep tree | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]; then # Same for its child! \o/ return 0 fi fi fi fi done return 1