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Re: Reading commit objects

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 21, 2013, 21:25 UTC
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Chico Sokol <chico.sokol@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm building a library to manipulate git repositories (interacting
> directly with the filesystem).
>
> Currently, we're trying to parse commit objects. After decompressing
> the contents of a commit object file we got the following output:
>
> commit 191
> author Francisco Sokol <chico.sokol@gmail.com> 1369140112 -0300
> committer Francisco Sokol <chico.sokol@gmail.com> 1369140112 -0300
>
> first commit
>
> We hoped to get the same output of a "git cat-file -p <sha1>", but
> that didn't happened. From a commit object, how can I find tree object
> hash of this commit?
git rev-parse <sha1>:
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Felipe Contreras
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Message 2 of 19 in “Reading commit objects”
  1. Chico SokolMay 21, 2013
  2. Felipe ContrerasMay 21, 2013
  3. John SzakmeisterMay 21, 2013
  4. Chico SokolMay 21, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  6. Chico SokolMay 21, 2013
  7. Jonathan NiederMay 21, 2013
  8. Shawn PearceMay 22, 2013
  9. java zlib woes (was: Reading commit objects)Andreas Krey, May 22, 2013
  10. Shawn PearceMay 22, 2013
  11. Andreas KreyMay 27, 2013
  12. fetch delta resolution vs. checkout (was: java zlib woes)Andreas Krey, Jun 4, 2013
  13. Shawn PearceMay 22, 2013
  14. Chico SokolMay 22, 2013
  15. Shawn PearceMay 22, 2013
  16. Chico SokolMay 22, 2013
  17. Chico SokolMay 22, 2013
  18. Shawn PearceMay 22, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013

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