From: "Magnus Bäck" <magnus.back@sonyericsson.com>
To: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:09:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100804130957.GB1537@jpl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i3bd0r$g2l$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 at 11:48 CEST,
Alejandro Riveira Fernández <ariveira@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:25:30 +0200, Magnus Bäck wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Maybe
>
> git cat-file -p <sha1>
>
> ?
Sorry, I should've been more clear here. I know about cat-file's
pretty-printing abilities, but I just wanted to inflate the loose
object data and see *exactly* where the differing byte ended up.
--
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Sony Ericsson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-04 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-04 9:25 Inspecting a corrupt git object Magnus Bäck
2010-08-04 9:48 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-08-04 13:09 ` Magnus Bäck [this message]
2010-08-04 9:48 ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-04 13:02 ` Magnus Bäck
2010-08-04 11:11 ` Holger Hellmuth
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