verify_lock(): report errors via a strbuf

diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 4b0a502e8ef92ac989cce308f87e1f269a8a69be..0c75f3b610678d9a6811ac73d208cabd706b2276 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>...
+'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>...
 'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths>
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --path::
        Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of
        file does not directly influence on the hash value, but path is
-       used to determine what git filters should be applied to the object
+       used to determine what Git filters should be applied to the object
        before it can be placed to the object database, and, as result of
        applying filters, the actual blob put into the object database may
        differ from the given file. This option is mainly useful for hashing
@@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ OPTIONS
        Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would
        have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line
        conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
-       is always implied, unless the --path option is given.
+       is always implied, unless the `--path` option is given.
+
+--literally::
+       Allow `--stdin` to hash any garbage into a loose object which might not
+       otherwise pass standard object parsing or git-fsck checks. Useful for
+       stress-testing Git itself or reproducing characteristics of corrupt or
+       bogus objects encountered in the wild.
 
 GIT
 ---