From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:58:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git cat-file "literally" option
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BJnHTyXhhJaCuZAzjm=Gd96EjANEw76j=3L92cmbX7HA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54E48A96.8010301@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:50 PM, karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also,
> Is there any way I can get the type of object made via git hash-object
> --literally. The problem I'm facing is "sha1_object_info()" returns a
> object_type enum, so objects not specified there are considered as errors.

Use what sha1_object_info() uses behind the scene. Loose object
encodes object type as a string, you could just print that string and
skip the enum object_type conversion. You probably need special
treatment for packed objects too. See parse_sha1_header() and
unpack_object_header().
-- 
Duy