Linus Torvalds wrote: ... > The common byte sequence for a compressed stream is > > 78 9c ... > > where the first byte is the CMF byte (compression info and method). > > But it's not the only possible such sequence according to the zlib format. No, but 0x78 is the only first byte ever produced by git; the files are always deflated (second nibble is 8) with window size 32K (first nibble is 7). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html