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Re: How to extract files out of a "git bundle", no matter what?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 19, 2008, 20:51 UTC
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:35:50AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> JK>   - the object pack in the bundle is "thin", meaning it may contain
> JK>     deltas against objects that are reachable from A, but not B. So even
> JK>     _within_ a changed file, you may see only the changes from A to B.
> 
> OK, we here at the police forensics department would be very happy if
> we could at least get some ASCII out of that .BDL file, even if it is
> just a diff shred,
> -       The password to the time bomb was BLORFZ
> +       The password to the time bomb is  NORFLZ
> that would be fine. All we know is after the work PACK it is all
> binary, and git-unpack-objects and git-unpack-file don't work on it.

AFAIK, there is no tool to try salvaging strings from an incomplete pack (and you can't just run "strings" because the deltas are zlib compressed). So if I were in the police forensics department, I think I would read Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt and start hacking a solution as quickly as possible.

-Peff
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Message 7 of 32 in “How to extract files out of a "git bundle", no matter what?”
  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 19, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceDec 19, 2008
  3. Mark LevedahlDec 19, 2008
  4. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 19, 2008
  5. Jeff KingDec 19, 2008
  6. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 19, 2008
  7. Jeff KingDec 19, 2008
  8. Documentation/git-bundle.txt: Dumping contents of any bundlejidanni@jidanni.org, Jan 1, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 1, 2009
  10. Jeff KingJan 1, 2009
  11. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 1, 2009
  12. Jeff KingJan 1, 2009
  13. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 2, 2009
  14. Shawn O. PearceJan 2, 2009
  15. Jeff KingJan 2, 2009
  16. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 2, 2009
  17. git ls-tree prints wacko file sizes if it can't find the blobjidanni@jidanni.org, Jan 1, 2009
  18. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 1, 2009
  19. Handle sha1_object_info failures in ls-tree -lAlex Riesen, Jan 1, 2009
  20. git-bundle(1): add no references required simplest casejidanni@jidanni.org, Jan 26, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  22. git-bundle(1): add no references required simplest casejidanni@jidanni.org, Jan 29, 2009
  23. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 1, 2009
  24. Johannes SchindelinFeb 2, 2009
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2009
  26. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 4, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2009
  28. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 4, 2009
  29. git-bundle doc: update examplesNanako Shiraishi, Feb 4, 2009
  30. Jeff KingFeb 4, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2009
  32. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2008

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