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Low-level repository inspection (Re: Where do I stick development documentation?)

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2010, 03:17 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> It'd also be very neat if we had tools to print out any object in its
> raw form, --pretty=raw is partly there, but it's more pretty than
> raw.

How about git cat-file (and other “interrogation commands” listed in git.1)?

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