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Building git in Haskell.
Test zlib compression
$ cat git-simple-commit/.git/objects/ce/013625030ba8dba906f756967f9e9ca394464a | cabal run inflate
blob 6hello
$ cat git-simple-commit/.git/objects/ce/013625030ba8dba906f756967f9e9ca394464a | cabal run inflate | wc -c
13
View hexdump of a blob
There is a null byte between the length header and the blob content.
$ cat git-simple-commit/.git/objects/ce/013625030ba8dba906f756967f9e9ca394464a | cabal run inflate | hexdump -C
# non-ascii chars are displayed as .
00000000 62 6c 6f 62 20 36 00 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a |blob 6.hello.|
0000000d # total size of file
View hexdump of a tree
$ cat git-simple-commit/.git/objects/88/e38705fdbd3608cddbe904b67c731f3234c45b | cabal run inflate | hexdump -C
# Store a tree as: string of mode, space, filename, null, and id as binary
00000000 74 72 65 65 20 37 34 00 31 30 30 36 34 34 20 68 |tree 74.100644 h| # length is 74
00000010 65 6c 6c 6f 2e 74 78 74 00 ce 01 36 25 03 0b a8 |ello.txt...6%...|
00000020 db a9 06 f7 56 96 7f 9e 9c a3 94 46 4a 31 30 30 |....V......FJ100| # 100644 is filemode
00000030 36 34 34 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 2e 74 78 74 00 cc 62 |644 world.txt..b|
00000040 8c cd 10 74 2b ae a8 24 1c 59 24 df 99 2b 5c 01 |...t+..$.Y$..+\.|
00000050 9f 71 |.q|
00000052 # total size of file