/*
 * Copyright (C) 2007, Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
 * Copyright (C) 2007, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
 *
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package org.spearce.jgit.lib;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Tree-ish is an interface for tree-like Git objects.
 */
public interface Treeish {
	/**
	 * @return the id of this tree
	 */
	public ObjectId getTreeId();

	/**
	 * @return the tree of this tree-ish object
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public Tree getTree() throws IOException;
}