Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object

From: Magnus Bäck <magnus.back@sonyericsson.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2010, 13:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20100804130957.GB1537@jpl.local>
In-Reply-To: <i3bd0r$g2l$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 at 11:48 CEST,
     Alejandro Riveira Fernández <ariveira@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:25:30 +0200, Magnus Bäck wrote:
>
> > From what I gather from the community book and Pro Git, a git object
> > file is a deflated representation of the object type as a string,
> > the payload size, a null byte, and the payload. Is there a standard
> > tool for inflating the file back so that I can inspect what the
> > actual difference between these two are? Short of writing a tool
> > utilizing zlib, at least.
>
>  Maybe
>
>  git cat-file -p <sha1>
>
>  ?

Sorry, I should've been more clear here. I know about cat-file's pretty-printing abilities, but I just wanted to inflate the loose object data and see *exactly* where the differing byte ended up.

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