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| author |  Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2015-06-22 17:27:06 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-06-23 14:27:36 -0700 |
| commit | 2becf00ff70b324999d0e3046d828a80884ab561 (patch) | |
| tree | 55276fe5b8c96bf4e7c4b641b2748a74a6672318 /Documentation | |
| parent | fsck: document the new receive.fsck.<msg-id> options (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2becf00ff70b324999d0e3046d828a80884ab561.tar.xz | |
fsck: support demoting errors to warnings
We already have support in `git receive-pack` to deal with some legacy
repositories which have non-fatal issues.
Let's make `git fsck` itself useful with such repositories, too, by
allowing users to ignore known issues, or at least demote those issues
to mere warnings.
Example: `git -c fsck.missingEmail=ignore fsck` would hide
problems with missing emails in author, committer and tagger lines.
In the same spirit that `git receive-pack`'s usage of the fsck machinery
differs from `git fsck`'s – some of the non-fatal warnings in `git fsck`
are fatal with `git receive-pack` when receive.fsckObjects = true, for
example – we strictly separate the fsck.<msg-id> from the
receive.fsck.<msg-id> settings.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9393f4ee02..1c657675a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1242,6 +1242,17 @@ filter.<driver>.smudge:: object to a worktree file upon checkout. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. +fsck.<msg-id>:: + Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a + specific message ID such as `missingEmail`. ++ +For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID, +e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means +that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue. ++ +This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories +which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes. + gc.aggressiveDepth:: The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults |