Choose a starting point
- file format 6
- Rust SDK 1.0 preview
Three ways in: standard tools, the Rust SDK, or the specification alone.
- Check a pack with standard tools
Rebuild a 544-byte pack from a hex listing, read its header line, and recompute its digest with
sha256sum. Needs a shell,xxdand GNU coreutils. - Rust quickstart
Get the Rust SDK from the Cintilé registry, then write a pack with three records, open it, and read the records back.
- Work from the specification
Write your own reader or writer from revision 6.0 and compare it with the description of each conformance case. Needs the published specification.