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| author |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2019-03-04 23:46:38 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-05 22:53:52 +0900 |
| commit | df805ed6cfdc3345ce238101104c51bef5ec09e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7584114fd543d677ca822d84dc3a431a2076d497 /Documentation/git-fsck.txt | |
| parent | Git 2.20.1 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-df805ed6cfdc3345ce238101104c51bef5ec09e7.tar.xz | |
doc/fsck: clarify --connectivity-only behavior
On reading this again, there are two things that were not immediately
clear to me:
- we do still check links to blobs, even though we don't open the
blobs themselves
- we do not do the normal fsck checks, even for non-blob objects we do
open
Let's reword it to make these points a little more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-fsck.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fsck.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index ab9a93fb9b..b2a32d57c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -62,9 +62,13 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs with --no-full. --connectivity-only:: - Check only the connectivity of tags, commits and tree objects. By - avoiding to unpack blobs, this speeds up the operation, at the - expense of missing corrupt objects or other problematic issues. + Check only the connectivity of reachable objects, making sure + that any objects referenced by a reachable tag, commit, or tree + is present. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading + blobs entirely (though it does still check that referenced blobs + exist). This will detect corruption in commits and trees, but + not do any semantic checks (e.g., for format errors). Corruption + in blob objects will not be detected at all. --strict:: Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode |