Unpacking Git packfiles

Aditya Mukerjee While working on Gitgo, an implementation of Git in pure Go, I encountered a puzzling issue. Gitgo tests its own dogfood, which means the tests for parsing objects use the git repository for Gitgo itself. This worked fine for a few days, until my pairing partner wanted to work on his computer instead of mine. I pushed the code to a remote repository so he could check it out, and we