Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-fsck.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 3ad48a633663ec22af16b4737c42fd7e7664e4d2..55b33d70310a9f328edfcf3d625a0fc9ab8a192b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless
 --no-reflogs is given) as heads.
 
 --unreachable::
-       Print out objects that exist but that aren't readable from any
+       Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any
        of the reference nodes.
 
 --root::
@@ -72,30 +72,20 @@ index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless
        a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
        its object name.
 
-It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of
-the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
-corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the
-'--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but
-that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes.
-
-So for example
+DISCUSSION
+----------
 
-       git fsck --unreachable HEAD \
-               $(git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads)
-
-will do quite a _lot_ of verification on the tree. There are a few
-extra validity tests to be added (make sure that tree objects are
-sorted properly etc), but on the whole if 'git fsck' is happy, you
-do have a valid tree.
+git-fsck tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking
+of the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
+corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the
+'--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but that
+aren't reachable from any of the specified head nodes (or the default
+set, as mentioned above).
 
 Any corrupt objects you will have to find in backups or other archives
 (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
-evil person, and the end result might be crap. git is a revision
-tracking system, not a quality assurance system ;)
-
 Extracted Diagnostics
 ---------------------
 
@@ -123,9 +113,6 @@ dangling <type> <object>::
        The <type> object <object>, is present in the database but never
        'directly' used. A dangling commit could be a root node.
 
-warning: git-fsck: tree <tree> has full pathnames in it::
-       And it shouldn't...
-
 sha1 mismatch <object>::
        The database has an object who's sha1 doesn't match the
        database value.
@@ -143,14 +130,6 @@ GIT_INDEX_FILE::
 GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES::
        used to specify additional object database roots (usually unset)
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite