Merge branch 'jc/commit-hook-authorship'

[git.git] / Documentation / user-manual.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index f13a84613198936ab238e356ec30091db4844544..6c7fee7ef7669c7e8789ad0c7273fd190f63c18c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ Checking the repository for corruption
 
 The linkgit:git-fsck[1] command runs a number of self-consistency checks
 on the repository, and reports on any problems.  This may take some
-time.  The most common warning by far is about "dangling" objects:
+time.
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git fsck
@@ -1597,9 +1597,11 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f
 ...
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Dangling objects are not a problem.  At worst they may take up a little
-extra disk space.  They can sometimes provide a last-resort method for
-recovering lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details.
+You will see informational messages on dangling objects. They are objects
+that still exist in the repository but are no longer referenced by any of
+your branches, and can (and will) be removed after a while with "gc".
+You can run `git fsck --no-dangling` to supress these messages, and still
+view real errors.
 
 [[recovering-lost-changes]]
 Recovering lost changes
@@ -3295,15 +3297,12 @@ it is with linkgit:git-fsck[1]; this may be time-consuming.
 Assume the output looks like this:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
-$ git fsck --full
+$ git fsck --full --no-dangling
 broken link from    tree 2d9263c6d23595e7cb2a21e5ebbb53655278dff8
               to    blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200
 missing blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-(Typically there will be some "dangling object" messages too, but they
-aren't interesting.)
-
 Now you know that blob 4b9458b3 is missing, and that the tree 2d9263c6
 points to it.  If you could find just one copy of that missing blob
 object, possibly in some other repository, you could move it into