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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index ab9a93fb9b..e0eae642c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -62,9 +62,17 @@ 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. ++ +Unreachable tags, commits, and trees will also be accessed to find the +tips of dangling segments of history. Use `--no-dangling` if you don't +care about this output and want to speed it up further. --strict:: Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode @@ -140,9 +148,9 @@ dangling <type> <object>:: The <type> object <object>, is present in the database but never 'directly' used. A dangling commit could be a root node. -sha1 mismatch <object>:: - The database has an object who's sha1 doesn't match the - database value. +hash mismatch <object>:: + The database has an object whose hash doesn't match the + object database value. This indicates a serious data integrity problem. Environment Variables |