Ok, we discovered that the commit object actually contains the tree object's sha1, by reading its contents with python zlib library. So the bug must be with our java code (we're building a java lib). Is there any non-standard issue in git's zlib compression? We're decompressing its contents with java default zlib api, so it should work normally, here's our code, that's printing that wrong output: import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; ... File obj = new File(".git/objects/25/0f67ef017fcb97b5371a302526872cfcadad21"); InflaterInputStream inflaterInputStream = new InflaterInputStream(new FileInputStream(obj)); System.out.println(IOUtils.readLines(inflaterInputStream)); I know that here it's not the right place to ask about java issues, but we would appreciate any help any help. -- Chico Sokol On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:37 PM, John Szakmeister <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Chico Sokol <chico.sokol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm building a library to manipulate git repositories (interacting >> directly with the filesystem). >> >> Currently, we're trying to parse commit objects. After decompressing >> the contents of a commit object file we got the following output: >> >> commit 191 >> author Francisco Sokol <chico.sokol@xxxxxxxxx> 1369140112 -0300 >> committer Francisco Sokol <chico.sokol@xxxxxxxxx> 1369140112 -0300 >> >> first commit > > Does `git cat-file -p <sha1>` show a tree object? FWIW, I expected to > see a tree line there, so maybe this object was created without a > tree? I also don't see a parent listed. > > I did this on one of my repos: > >>>> buf = open('.git/objects/cd/da219e4d7beceae55af73c44cb3c9e1ec56802', 'rb').read() >>>> import zlib >>>> zlib.decompress(buf) > 'commit 246\x00tree 2abfe1a7bedb29672a223a5c5f266b7dc70a8d87\nparent > 0636e7ff6b79470b0cd53ceacea88e7796f202ce\nauthor John Szakmeister > <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1369168481 -0400\ncommitter John Szakmeister > <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1369168481 -0400\n\nGot a file listing.\n' > > So at least creating the commits with Git, I see a tree. How was the > commit you're referencing created? Perhaps something is wrong with > that process? > >> We hoped to get the same output of a "git cat-file -p <sha1>", but >> that didn't happened. From a commit object, how can I find tree object >> hash of this commit? > > I'd expect that too. > > -John -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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