Timeline for How to DEFLATE with a command line tool to extract a git object?
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 21:34 | comment | added | kheyse | The -p pretty print option is an advantage though when you want to understand the contents of the object. Uncompressing a tree object with pigz will not give you a human-readable result. | |
| Jan 23, 2014 at 4:15 | comment | added | ntc2 |
As Jack points out above, the output of git cat-file -p <SHA1> is not the complete contents of the zlib decompression of .git/objects/<SHA1>. The difference is key if you're trying to implement a Git commit hash calculator ...
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| Jan 9, 2013 at 3:35 | history | answered | Congbin Guo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |