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[BUG] "git cat-file tree <sha1>" prints garbage

Subject: [BUG] "git cat-file tree <sha1>" prints garbage

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2 messages between Oct 1, 2006 and Oct 1, 2006.

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Sebastian Harl· Oct 1, 2006, 20:26 UTC · lore

Hi,

When using "git cat-file tree <sha1>" to print a tree's content, it produces garbage output like the following:

  $ git cat-file -t c0cd1e4e1888be6a70d44476996ece8be1ab52a2
  tree
  $ git cat-file tree c0cd1e4e1888be6a70d44476996ece8be1ab52a2
  100644 .gitignore%ëF7¦ùq¤¢«:yÇ½100644
  COPYINGoø|FdCbWÈê;»_"y£40000 Documentation>Ý¢ÞÀç $ë#ºâü100755
  GIT-VERSION-GEN
  [...]

Using "git cat-file -p <sha1>" works fine. (The above example uses one of the latest commits of the git.git repository)

Cheers, Sebastian

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Johannes Schindelin· Oct 1, 2006, 20:48 UTC · re: Sebastian Harl · lore

Re: [BUG] "git cat-file tree <sha1>" prints garbage

Hi,

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Sebastian Harl wrote:

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> When using "git cat-file tree <sha1>" to print a tree's content, it produces
> garbage output like the following:
> 
>   $ git cat-file -t c0cd1e4e1888be6a70d44476996ece8be1ab52a2
>   tree
>   $ git cat-file tree c0cd1e4e1888be6a70d44476996ece8be1ab52a2
>   100644 .gitignore%ëF7¦ùq¤¢«:yÇ½100644
>   COPYINGoø|FdCbWÈê;»_"y£40000 Documentation>Ý¢ÞÀç $ë#ºâü100755
>   GIT-VERSION-GEN
>   [...]
> 
> Using "git cat-file -p <sha1>" works fine.
> (The above example uses one of the latest commits of the git.git repository)

That is not a bug. "git cat-file tree <sha1>" produces the _exact_ contents of the object, while "-p" _pretty_-prints the contents.

Ciao, Dscho