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Re: capturing the packfile from git-upload-pack

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2011, 17:46 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 23:22, madmarcos <fru574@my.utsa.edu> wrote:
>> is there a git command that can capture in a separate file the packfile that
>> is generated and transmitted from a "want"ed branch during the
>> git-upload-pack command? I need a good sample to study.
>
> No.
>
> But you can create an input file yourself, the pkt-line format is
> pretty simple. Pipe the input to git-upload-pack, and it will spit
> back the response. :-)

If you are running 1.7.5-rc0 or newer, GIT_TRACE_PACKET may also be of help.

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