Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object

On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 at 11:48 CEST,
     Alejandro Riveira Fernández [off-list ref] wrote:

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

quoted

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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