The Object File

Let's take a look at what's inside this suspicious commit object file.

Assignment

Try to cat the contents of the commit object file, the file you used to answer the previous lesson (which will interpret the contents as text).

cat path/to/file/from-before

Nope... it's a mess. The contents have been compressed to raw bytes!

Try again with the xxd command to print the contents of the file in hexadecimal format:

xxd path/to/file/from-before

You may need to install xxd.

Do that again, but redirect the output to a temporary file so the tests can read it:

xxd path/to/file/from-before > /tmp/commit_object_hex.txt

Run and submit the CLI tests.