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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: madmarcos <fru574@my.utsa.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Java Inflater problem decompressing packfile
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:37:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110416063729.GC28853@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302919505984-6278154.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:05:05PM -0700, madmarcos wrote:

> So, my inflater method decompresses the first 7 objects fine (a commit, a
> couple of trees, and several blobs) and a cursory visual inspection of the
> decompressed data seems fine. The eighth object becomes a problem, though.
> It is a blob with the name build.xml that is 51,060 bytes decompressed
> (looking at the original pre-git-pushed jEdit source). The actual file size
> matches the decompressed data content size in the packfile object header. 
> The inflater procedure outputs the decompressed data to System.out for
> visual inspection. Approximately the first 1/3 looks like the original
> build.xml but after that, the output is garbled. The procedure continues
> decompressing objects after the 8th, but garbled, object but it dies on the
> 9th object with an "unknown compression method" error.

Is it possible that the blob is stored as a delta within the pack? In
that case the pack header will tell you what the eventual size of the
blob will be, but the data will actually be a diff against another pack
object. Does your inflater handle delta-fied objects?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  2:05 Java Inflater problem decompressing packfile madmarcos
2011-04-16  6:37 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-04-16 14:23   ` madmarcos
2011-04-16 14:36     ` madmarcos
2011-04-16 14:58       ` madmarcos
2011-04-16 15:50         ` madmarcos
2011-04-17  0:40           ` madmarcos
2011-04-17  4:02             ` madmarcos
2011-04-17  4:06               ` madmarcos
2011-04-17  4:36     ` Jeff King

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