From: jidanni@jidanni.org
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:35:50 GMT
Subject: Re: How to extract files out of a "git bundle", no matter what?
Message-ID: <87vdtfc389.fsf@jidanni.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081219202118.GA26513@coredump.intra.peff.net>

JK> In particular, if a bundle contains changes between some commit A
JK> and some commit B, then:

JK>   - files that were not changed between A and B will not be included at
JK>     all

JK>   - the object pack in the bundle is "thin", meaning it may contain
JK>     deltas against objects that are reachable from A, but not B. So even
JK>     _within_ a changed file, you may see only the changes from A to B.

OK, we here at the police forensics department would be very happy if
we could at least get some ASCII out of that .BDL file, even if it is
just a diff shred,
-       The password to the time bomb was BLORFZ
+       The password to the time bomb is  NORFLZ
that would be fine. All we know is after the work PACK it is all
binary, and git-unpack-objects and git-unpack-file don't work on it.