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Describe the specific relationship between a `commit` object, its `tree` object, and the `blob` objects for a single commit.



A `commit` object is a fundamental Git object that represents a specific point in the project's history. Each `commit` object stores essential metadata such as the author, committer, timestamp, and a log message. Crucially, a `commit` object also contains pointers, which are SHA-1 hashes, to its parent `commit` objects, establishing the project's history graph. Most importantly for this relationship, every `commit` object holds a single pointer to a `tree` object. This particular `tree` object represents the entire snapshot of the project's working directory at the exact moment that commit was made. It acts as the root directory for that specific version of the repository. The `tree` object itself represents a directory within the project's file structure. Unlike a `blob` object, a `tree` object does not store file content. Instead, it contains a list of entries, where each....

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