I just had occasion to type this and thought I'd share (fairly sure someone will have done this before, but my search-fu fails me). 
ls -R | perl -ne 'if(/:$/){s/:$//;s/[^\/]*\//--/g;s/^-/\t|/;print}'

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Result: 
$ ls -R | perl -ne 'if(/:$/){s/:$//;s/[^\/]*\//--/g;s/^-/\t|/;print}'
    |---branches
    |---hooks
    |---info
    |---logs
    |-----refs
    |-------heads
    |-------remotes
    |---------origin
    |---objects
    |-----02
    |-----0a
    |-----10
    |-----24
    |-----27
    |-----3f
    |-----41
    |-----4e
    |-----64
    |-----69
    |-----6e
    |-----70
    |-----74
    |-----76
    |-----7b
    |-----82
    |-----8d
    |-----94
    |-----a7
    |-----ac
    |-----b0
    |-----b7
    |-----d6
    |-----dd
    |-----e2
    |-----info
    |-----pack
    |---refs
    |-----heads
    |-----remotes
    |-------origin
    |-----tags
    |-Spider
    |---Muffet
    |-----Filter
    |-------Reader
    |-----Output
    |-------Writer

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Charlie Harvey.

In reply to One liner to print a file system tree on UNIX like systems by ciderpunx

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