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Re: Manually decoding a git object

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Feb 20, 2012, 04:45 UTC
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2012/2/20 Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>:
> If I have a renamed file which is a git object, such a "Git_Object", was
> 8c-something-or-other, what is the easiest way of examining / decoding /
> recreating the original file (either as its sha1, or a cat-file).
>

I don't think I fully understood what you mean, I assume you just move an object file from $GIT_DIR/objects/ to somewhere and rename it, let's call it "obj", so if you want to exam its content you can just simply call "git cat-file -p obj". And you can also use "git cat-file -t obj" to exam its object type. If it's a blob you can use "git cat-file -p obj > original" to recreate it, else it's meaningless to recreate it.

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  1. Document format of basic Git objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 15, 2012
  2. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2012
  5. Document format of basic Git objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 19, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 19, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 19, 2012
  8. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 20, 2012
  9. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  10. Manually decoding a git objectPhilip Oakley, Feb 19, 2012
  11. 徐迪Feb 20, 2012
  12. Philip OakleyFeb 20, 2012
  13. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2012
  14. Philip OakleyFeb 20, 2012
  15. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2012
  16. 徐迪Feb 20, 2012
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