> Your code is broken. IOUtils is probably corrupting what you get back. > After inflating the stream you should see the object type ("commit"), > space, its length in bytes as a base 10 string, and then a NUL ('\0'). > Following that is the tree line, and parent(s) if any. I wonder if > IOUtils discarded the remainder of the line after the NUL and did not > consider the tree line. Maybe you're right, Shawn. I've also tried the following code: File dotGit = new File("objects/25/0f67ef017fcb97b5371a302526872cfcadad21"); InflaterInputStream inflaterInputStream = new InflaterInputStream(new FileInputStream(dotGit)); ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); IOUtils.copyLarge(inflaterInputStream, os); System.out.println(new String(os.toByteArray())); But we got the same result, I'll try to read the bytes by myself (without apache IOUtils). Is the contents of a unpacked object utf-8 encoded? -- 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