From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:03:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-bundle.txt: Dumping contents of any bundle
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901011802350.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87prj7mz50.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> >>>>> "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>
> ---

Just for the record: this is in so many ways not a commit message I want 
to have in git.git.  I hope it is not applied.

Ciao,
Dscho