Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:25:30 +0200, Magnus Bäck wrote:

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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>
 
 ?

Any other ideas why we would see such a difference? Hardware malfunction
or memory corruption I guess, but something else? I can supply the
actual object files if necessary.

Alejandro