The following commands do not produce the same output:
cat .git/objects/96/d0745960850e8ac97406311f3288b6d035cefc
git show --raw 96d0745960850e8ac97406311f3288b6d035cefc
I have tried various options to git show and git cat-file, but I cannot seem to get things to match. I feel like this should be supported somehow.
Specifically, I want the documented format. That is, I expect to see the, header, null byte, etc.
If I run:
cat .git/objects/96/d0745960850e8ac97406311f3288b6d035cefc | zlib-deflate | hexdump
I see that the line starts with:
0000000 62 6c 6f 62
which corresponds to "b" "l" "o" "b" as I would expect.
If you're curious, the contents of my zlib-deflate script are:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Deflates a stream of bytes compressed via zlib that are passed to stdin.
import io
import sys
import zlib
# https://stackoverflow.com/q/6065173/396304
reader = io.open(sys.stdin.fileno(), mode='rb', closefd=False)
data = reader.read()
print zlib.decompress(data)