Context: I was hoping to be able to search through my git commit messages and commits without having to go through the puzzlingly complex git grep command, so I decided to see how git commit messages were stored.

I took a look in a .git folder, and it looks to me like commits are stored in

.git/objects 

The .git objects folder contains a bunch of folders with names like a6 and 9b. These folders each contain a file with a name that looks like a commit sha 2f29598814b07fea915514cfc4d05129967bf7. When I open one of those files in a text editor, I get gibberish.

1. What file format is this gibberish / How is a git commit object stored?
   2.In this git commit log, the folder 9b contains one commit sha

   aed8a9f773efb2f498f19c31f8603b6cb2a4bc

Why, and is there a case where more than one commit sha would be stored in the file 9b?

3. is there a way to convert this gibberish into plain text so that I can mess with commits in a text editor?

Context: I was hoping to be able to search through my git commit messages and commits without having to go through the puzzlingly complex git grep command, so I decided to see how git commit messages were stored.

I took a look in a .git folder, and it looks to me like commits are stored in

.git/objects 

The .git objects folder contains a bunch of folders with names like a6 and 9b. These folders each contain a file with a name that looks like a commit sha 2f29598814b07fea915514cfc4d05129967bf7. When I open one of those files in a text editor, I get gibberish.

1. What file format is this gibberish / How is a git commit object stored?

2. In this git commit log, the folder 9b contains one commit sha

    aed8a9f773efb2f498f19c31f8603b6cb2a4bc
   

   Why, and is there a case where more than one commit sha would be stored in the file 9b?

3. is there a way to convert this gibberish into plain text so that I can mess with commits in a text editor?