1fsck.<msg-id>:: 2 During fsck git may find issues with legacy data which 3 wouldn't be generated by current versions of git, and which 4 wouldn't be sent over the wire if `transfer.fsckObjects` was 5 set. This feature is intended to support working with legacy 6 repositories containing such data. 7+ 8Setting `fsck.<msg-id>` will be picked up by linkgit:git-fsck[1], but 9to accept pushes of such data set `receive.fsck.<msg-id>` instead, or 10to clone or fetch it set `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>`. 11+ 12The rest of the documentation discusses `fsck.*` for brevity, but the 13same applies for the corresponding `receive.fsck.*` and 14`fetch.<msg-id>.*`. variables. 15+ 16Unlike variables like `color.ui` and `core.editor` the 17`receive.fsck.<msg-id>` and `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>` variables will not 18fall back on the `fsck.<msg-id>` configuration if they aren't set. To 19uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances 20all three of them they must all set to the same values. 21+ 22When `fsck.<msg-id>` is set, errors can be switched to warnings and 23vice versa by configuring the `fsck.<msg-id>` setting where the 24`<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value is one of `error`, 25`warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning 26with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer 27line - missing email" means that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` 28will hide that issue. 29+ 30In general, it is better to enumerate existing objects with problems 31with `fsck.skipList`, instead of listing the kind of breakages these 32problematic objects share to be ignored, as doing the latter will 33allow new instances of the same breakages go unnoticed. 34+ 35Setting an unknown `fsck.<msg-id>` value will cause fsck to die, but 36doing the same for `receive.fsck.<msg-id>` and `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>` 37will only cause git to warn. 38 39fsck.skipList:: 40 The path to a list of object names (i.e. one unabbreviated SHA-1 per 41 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should 42 be ignored. On versions of Git 2.20 and later comments ('#'), empty 43 lines, and any leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. Everything 44 but a SHA-1 per line will error out on older versions. 45+ 46This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted 47despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored 48such as invalid committer email addresses. Note: corrupt objects 49cannot be skipped with this setting. 50+ 51Like `fsck.<msg-id>` this variable has corresponding 52`receive.fsck.skipList` and `fetch.fsck.skipList` variants. 53+ 54Unlike variables like `color.ui` and `core.editor` the 55`receive.fsck.skipList` and `fetch.fsck.skipList` variables will not 56fall back on the `fsck.skipList` configuration if they aren't set. To 57uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances 58all three of them they must all set to the same values. 59+ 60Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the object names 61list should be sorted. This was never a requirement, the object names 62could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether 63the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search 64implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted 65list. Unless you had a humongous list there was no reason to go out of 66your way to pre-sort the list. After Git version 2.20 a hash implementation 67is used instead, so there's now no reason to pre-sort the list.