Nathan Manceaux-Panot <fresh.tree3651@lemon.garden> writes: > I have a corrupted git index file, and am trying to read it by > hand, to understand what's wrong with it. Are there any tools > that'll let me parse the on-disk, binary version of the index > file, to unpack it into a human-readable data structure? "git ls-files" with its various options is probably the closest, but even the command is not meant for "debugging the bits". It is more about showing lower-level details of a working index file to help diagnose the mismatch between end-user expectation and the reality (e.g. the user says the conflicts were all resolved, an expert asks to run "ls-files -u" and together they discover that there are paths that are still unmerged).
