Timothy Shimmin wrote:
>>> * Are there any tools for dumping out the contents of the
>>> git objects in the .git/objects directory.
>>> By dumping out, I mean an ascii representation of the data
>>> fields for the commit and tree objects in particular.
>>> I've written a simple small program to dump out the index
>>> entries (cache entries).
>>
>> git-cat-file -p
>>
> Excellent, thanks. (looks like the option is undocumented - secret option:)
It looks not:
usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>
-p Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type.
> So I added this to a script which walks over the objects directory,
> to work out what all the object ids are so I can apply git-cat-file
> to all the objects on my test directory.
> I guess this will fall down if the objects are stored in a pack :)
> I'll have to look and see how to extract all the object ids using
> some command.
git-rev-parse and/or git-rev-list (the latter with --objects option) is your
friend. And there is git-ls-tree command which list sha1 of blobs (files)
and trees (subdirectories) for specific revision (specified tree).
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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