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authorLibravatar J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-01-26 00:17:12 -0500
committerLibravatar J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-01-26 00:17:12 -0500
commit11e016a32c1ac5535a9a248e23bc9a7e1f6c43d2 (patch)
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parentuser-manual: update git-gc discussion (diff)
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user-manual: stub discussion of fsck and reflog
Have some sort of recovery/reliability section that deals with reflog and fsck. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@@ -1456,6 +1456,27 @@ $ git gc
to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so
you may prefer to run git-gc when you are not doing other work.
+Ensuring reliability
+--------------------
+
+Checking the repository for corruption
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TODO:
+ git-fsck
+ "dangling objects" explanation
+ Brief explanation here,
+ include forward reference to longer explanation from
+ Linus, to be added to later chapter
+
+Recovering lost changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TODO:
+ reflog
+ git-fsck
+ low-level examination of objects
+
Sharing development with others
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