Merge branch 'maint-1.7.8' into maint-1.7.9

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index a2a508dc2829b88e143ceb5c8e5edf0880263b2b..6c47395ad2d22f54ed76dda914efbc28b0dca083 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git fsck' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--no-reflogs]
-        [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found] [<object>*]
+        [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found]
+        [--[no-]progress] [<object>*]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -72,30 +73,28 @@ 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 reachable from any of the specified head nodes.
-
-So for example
+--progress::
+--no-progress::
+       Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by
+       default when it is attached to a terminal, unless
+       --no-progress or --verbose is specified. --progress forces
+       progress status even if the standard error stream is not
+       directed to a terminal.
 
-       git fsck --unreachable HEAD \
-               $(git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads)
+DISCUSSION
+----------
 
-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
 ---------------------