How to view git objects and index without using git
git, macos, terminal, version-control
Solution
Look at “Object storage format” in Git User Manual.
It is raw compressed data using zlib. One can use `zpipe` from the 'zlib1g-dev' package. Compile the example with `gcc -o zpipe zpipe.c -lz`. It is not a standard `.gz` or something.
./zpipe -d < .git/objects/02/43019ddb4d94114e5a8580eec01baeea195133
prints the content of the blob (header+data)
If you want to check the SHA-1, you have to put the uncompressed blob in a file (`myblob`) and do
sha1sum myblob
Problem
Using the OS X terminal, How an you view the contents of these files as plain text?