title: How to DEFLATE with a command line tool to extract a git object?
body: <p>I'm looking for a command line wrapper for the DEFLATE algorithm.</p>
  
  <p>I have a file (git blob) that is compressed using DEFLATE, and I want to uncompress it. The gzip command does not seem to have an option to directly use the DEFLATE algorithm, rather than the gzip format.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally I'm looking for a standard Unix/Linux tool that can do this.</p>
  
  <p>edit: This is the output I get when trying to use gzip for my problem:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ cat .git/objects/c0/fb67ab3fda7909000da003f4b2ce50a53f43e7 | gunzip
  
  gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
  </code></pre>