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Jakob Reschke edited this page Apr 29, 2017 · 1 revision

Packfile reading and unpacking errors

Put the content of the stream into a file, if does not come from a file already. The file name must end in .pack. Run

git index-pack thefile.pack
git verify-pack -v thefile.pack > thefile.pack-content.txt

to a) verify that the pack is actually sound and b) get a listing of the objects with their types and offsets. The output format is documented in the manpage for git-verify-pack. Compare that with the actual offsets sent to the GitPackFile object with #objectAtOffset:.

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