Building Git in Elixir — Part 2 (Store Trees & Initial Commit)

In the previous article of this series, I focused on initializing repository and storing blobs for file content. In this article, I will focus on storing trees and first commit.

A Bit of Theory

As explained in previous article, a tree stores certain information about the stored blobs. It is one more level of indirection above blobs for easier lookup. If we examine Git’s objects database using git cat-file command we can see —