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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fsck.txt | 10 |
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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 |