[PATCH] Documentation/git-bundle.txt: Dumping contents of any bundle

From: jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date: Jan 1, 2009, 04:24 UTC
Message-ID: <87prj7mz50.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081219205100.GA26671@coredump.intra.peff.net>

>>>>> "JK" == Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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

Hogwash. Patch follows. Maybe even better methods are available.

Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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 Documentation/git-bundle.txt |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index 1b66ab7..80248f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,28 @@ $ git pull bundle
 would treat it as if it is talking with a remote side over the
 network.
 
+DUMPING CONTENTS OF ANY BUNDLE
+-----------------------
+
+Even if we cannot unbundle a bundle,
+
+------------
+$ git init
+$ git bundle unbundle mybundle.bun
+error: Repository lacks these prerequisite commits...
+------------
+
+We can still examine all the data contained within,
+
+------------
+$ sed '/^PACK/,$!d' mybundle.bun > mybundle.pack
+$ git unpack-objects < mybundle.pack
+$ cd .git/objects
+$ ls ??/*|tr -d /|git cat-file --batch-check
+$ ls ??/*|tr -d /|git cat-file --batch
+------------
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>

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