Nathan Manceaux-Panot <fresh.tree3651@lemon.garden> writes: >> On Jan 8, 2024, at 20:51, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> "git ls-files" with its various options is probably the closest, but >> even the command is not meant for "debugging the bits" > > Thanks for the pointer. In the meantime I've started to make sense > of the binary representation, against all odds, so there's hope > for me there! Documentation/gitformat-index.txt may be a good place to start, of course. https://github.com/git/htmldocs/blob/gh-pages/gitformat-index.txt