Re: Manually decoding a git object

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2012/2/20 Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>:
> If I have a renamed file which is a git object, such a "Git_Object", was
> 8c-something-or-other, what is the easiest way of examining / decoding /
> recreating the original file (either as its sha1, or a cat-file).
>
I don't think I fully understood what you mean, I assume you just move
an object file from $GIT_DIR/objects/ to somewhere and rename it,
let's call it "obj", so if you want to exam its content you can just
simply call "git cat-file -p obj". And you can also use "git cat-file
-t obj" to exam its object type. If it's a blob you can use "git
cat-file -p obj > original" to recreate it, else it's meaningless to
recreate it.