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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-20 16:15:59 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-20 16:15:59 +0900 |
| commit | 328b8c903d3158188a5d7dff974bcd6174a8ed32 (patch) | |
| tree | f98991773522851aa89d71c2b2e0b33a4c309125 /git-fsck.txt | |
| parent | decc7317e484bc31d0dfb457e70c9ad5a59fe7b1 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-328b8c903d3158188a5d7dff974bcd6174a8ed32.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.21.0-196-g041f5
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diff --git a/git-fsck.txt b/git-fsck.txt index 55950d9ee..e0eae642c 100644 --- a/git-fsck.txt +++ b/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 |