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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nathan Manceaux-Panot <fresh.tree3651@lemon.garden>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Analyzing a corrupted index file
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:16:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1qaqjukk.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29D15110-E308-475F-A722-1CDD448CACDA@lemon.garden> (Nathan Manceaux-Panot's message of "Tue, 9 Jan 2024 15:42:13 +0100")

Nathan Manceaux-Panot <fresh.tree3651@lemon.garden> writes:

>> On Jan 8, 2024, at 20:51, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> "git ls-files" with its various options is probably the closest, but
>> even the command is not meant for "debugging the bits"
>
> Thanks for the pointer. In the meantime I've started to make sense
> of the binary representation, against all odds, so there's hope
> for me there!

Documentation/gitformat-index.txt may be a good place to start, of
course.

https://github.com/git/htmldocs/blob/gh-pages/gitformat-index.txt


      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-09 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-07 15:22 Analyzing a corrupted index file Nathan Manceaux-Panot
2024-01-08 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-09 14:42   ` Nathan Manceaux-Panot
2024-01-09 17:16     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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