Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object

[Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>]

Magnus Bäck wrote:
> 
> $ head -n 1 /tmp/hexdump_corrupt.txt
> 00000000  78 9c 2b 29 4a 4d 55 30  32 36 62 30 34 30 30 33 |x.+)JMU026b04003|
> $ head -n 1 /tmp/hexdump_okay.txt
> 00000000  78 01 2b 29 4a 4d 55 30  32 36 62 30 34 30 30 33 |x.+)JMU026b04003|
> 
> From what I gather from the community book and Pro Git, a git object
> file is a deflated representation of the object type as a string, the
> payload size, a null byte, and the payload. Is there a standard tool for
> inflating the file back so that I can inspect what the actual difference
> between these two are? Short of writing a tool utilizing zlib, at least.

I'm sure it's a one-liner in almost any scripting language, e.g. you
can use

  python -c 'import sys,zlib; sys.stdout.write(zlib.decompress(open(sys.argv[1]).read()))'

with a filename argument if you have Python at hand.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch