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[verse]
'git-fsck-objects' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache]
- [--standalone | --full] [--strict] [<object>*]
+ [--full] [--strict] [<object>*]
DESCRIPTION
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Consider any object recorded in the index also as a head node for
an unreachability trace.
---standalone::
- Limit checks to the contents of GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
- ($GIT_DIR/objects), making sure that it is consistent and
- complete without referring to objects found in alternate
- object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES,
- nor packed git archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack;
- cannot be used with --full.
-
--full::
Check not just objects in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
($GIT_DIR/objects), but also the ones found in alternate
- object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES,
+ object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
+ or $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates,
and in packed git archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack
and corresponding pack subdirectories in alternate
- object pools; cannot be used with --standalone.
+ object pools.
--strict::
Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode
do have a valid tree.
Any corrupt objects you will have to find in backups or other archives
-(ie you can just remove them and do an "rsync" with some other site in
+(i.e., you can just remove them and do an "rsync" with some other site in
the hopes that somebody else has the object you have corrupted).
Of course, "valid tree" doesn't mean that it wasn't generated by some