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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git fsck' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--no-reflogs]
[--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found]
- [--[no-]dangling] [--[no-]progress] [<object>*]
+ [--[no-]dangling] [--[no-]progress] [--connectivity-only]
+ [--[no-]name-objects] [<object>*]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -60,6 +61,11 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
object pools. This is now default; you can turn it off
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.
+
--strict::
Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode
recorded with g+w bit set, which was created by older
@@ -77,6 +83,12 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
its object name.
+--name-objects::
+ When displaying names of reachable objects, in addition to the
+ SHA-1 also display a name that describes *how* they are reachable,
+ compatible with linkgit:git-rev-parse[1], e.g.
+ `HEAD@{1234567890}~25^2:src/`.
+
--[no-]progress::
Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by
default when it is attached to a terminal, unless
@@ -90,7 +102,7 @@ DISCUSSION
git-fsck tests SHA-1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking
of the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the
-'--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but that
+`--unreachable` flag it will also print out objects that exist but that
aren't reachable from any of the specified head nodes (or the default
set, as mentioned above).