From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:46:28 GMT
Subject: Re: capturing the packfile from git-upload-pack
Message-ID: <7vy63bcsqz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimAt_gcp1uBR_0H7LJHUdFGqHbRvA@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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.