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    In contrast to the other answers, this one works on OS X.
    – polym
    Commented Dec 29, 2015 at 18:32
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    @polym, how did you get zlib-flate installed on macOS? I don't see it anywhere.
    – Wildcard
    Commented Oct 2, 2016 at 4:34
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    @Wildcard sorry for the late response. I think it came with the qpdf package that I've installed with brew as mentioned in the comment above - or look at the last sentence of this answer :). Also, qpdf is really cool, so have a look at it too if you have time!
    – polym
    Commented Oct 16, 2016 at 13:28
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    brew install qpdf, then the command listed above :-) thank you! Commented Sep 18, 2019 at 15:13
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    This is really useful if you're learning how git objects are stored, using this instead of git cat-file -p works fine! Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 22:36