How to view git objects and index without using git

Question

Using the OS X terminal,

How an you view the contents of these files as plain text?

Answer 1

alias deflate="perl -MCompress::Zlib -e 'undef $/; print uncompress(<>)'"

deflate .git/objects/4b/3083256dedabd68e839d7717aa785424119990 | sha1sum
4b3083256dedabd68e839d7717aa785424119990  -