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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt41
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt7
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 75c372238d..9358f4c16b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1242,6 +1242,25 @@ 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.
+
+fsck.skipList::
+ The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
+ line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
+ be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
+ should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
+ can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
+ Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
+
gc.aggressiveDepth::
The depth parameter used in the delta compression
algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
@@ -2202,6 +2221,28 @@ receive.fsckObjects::
Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
is used instead.
+receive.fsck.<msg-id>::
+ When `receive.fsckObjects` is set to true, errors can be switched
+ to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>`
+ setting where the `<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value
+ is one of `error`, `warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes
+ the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
+ author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
+ `receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
++
+This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
+which would not pass pushing when `receive.fsckObjects = true`, allowing
+the host to accept repositories with certain known issues but still catch
+other issues.
+
+receive.fsck.skipList::
+ The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
+ line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
+ be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
+ should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
+ can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
+ Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
+
receive.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects received in a push is below this
limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 25c431d3c5..84ee92e158 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 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] [<object>*]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ 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