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31 git-fsck \- Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database
35 \fIgit fsck\fR [\-\-tags] [\-\-root] [\-\-unreachable] [\-\-cache] [\-\-no\-reflogs]
36 [\-\-[no\-]full] [\-\-strict] [\-\-verbose] [\-\-lost\-found]
37 [\-\-[no\-]dangling] [\-\-[no\-]progress] [\-\-connectivity\-only]
38 [\-\-[no\-]name\-objects] [<object>\&...]
43 Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database\&.
48 An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace\&.
50 If no objects are given,
52 defaults to using the index file, all SHA\-1 references in
54 namespace, and all reflogs (unless \-\-no\-reflogs is given) as heads\&.
59 Print out objects that exist but that aren\(cqt reachable from any of the reference nodes\&.
64 Print objects that exist but that are never
67 \fB\-\-no\-dangling\fR
68 can be used to omit this information from the output\&.
83 Consider any object recorded in the index also as a head node for an unreachability trace\&.
88 Do not consider commits that are referenced only by an entry in a reflog to be reachable\&. This option is meant only to search for commits that used to be in a ref, but now aren\(cqt, but are still in that corresponding reflog\&.
93 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 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\&. This is now default; you can turn it off with \-\-no\-full\&.
96 \-\-connectivity\-only
98 Check only the connectivity of reachable objects, making sure that any objects referenced by a reachable tag, commit, or tree is present\&. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading blobs entirely (though it does still check that referenced blobs exist)\&. This will detect corruption in commits and trees, but not do any semantic checks (e\&.g\&., for format errors)\&. Corruption in blob objects will not be detected at all\&.
100 Unreachable tags, commits, and trees will also be accessed to find the tips of dangling segments of history\&. Use
101 \fB\-\-no\-dangling\fR
102 if you don\(cqt care about this output and want to speed it up further\&.
107 Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode recorded with g+w bit set, which was created by older versions of Git\&. Existing repositories, including the Linux kernel, Git itself, and sparse repository have old objects that triggers this check, but it is recommended to check new projects with this flag\&.
117 Write dangling objects into \&.git/lost\-found/commit/ or \&.git/lost\-found/other/, depending on type\&. If the object is a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than its object name\&.
122 When displaying names of reachable objects, in addition to the SHA\-1 also display a name that describes
124 they are reachable, compatible with
125 \fBgit-rev-parse\fR(1), e\&.g\&.
126 \fBHEAD@{1234567890}~25^2:src/\fR\&.
131 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\&.
135 Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from the \fBgit-config\fR(1) documentation\&. The content is the same as what\(cqs found there:
139 During fsck git may find issues with legacy data which wouldn\(cqt be generated by current versions of git, and which wouldn\(cqt be sent over the wire if
140 \fBtransfer\&.fsckObjects\fR
141 was set\&. This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories containing such data\&.
144 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
146 \fBgit-fsck\fR(1), but to accept pushes of such data set
147 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
148 instead, or to clone or fetch it set
149 \fBfetch\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR\&.
151 The rest of the documentation discusses
153 for brevity, but the same applies for the corresponding
154 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.*\fR
156 \fBfetch\&.<msg\-id>\&.*\fR\&. variables\&.
158 Unlike variables like
163 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
165 \fBfetch\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
166 variables will not fall back on the
167 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
168 configuration if they aren\(cqt set\&. To uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances all three of them they must all set to the same values\&.
171 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
172 is set, errors can be switched to warnings and vice versa by configuring the
173 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
176 is the fsck message ID and the value is one of
180 \fBignore\fR\&. For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID, e\&.g\&. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line \- missing email" means that setting
181 \fBfsck\&.missingEmail = ignore\fR
182 will hide that issue\&.
184 In general, it is better to enumerate existing objects with problems with
185 \fBfsck\&.skipList\fR, instead of listing the kind of breakages these problematic objects share to be ignored, as doing the latter will allow new instances of the same breakages go unnoticed\&.
188 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
189 value will cause fsck to die, but doing the same for
190 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
192 \fBfetch\&.fsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
193 will only cause git to warn\&.
198 The path to a list of object names (i\&.e\&. one unabbreviated SHA\-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non\-fatal way and should be ignored\&. On versions of Git 2\&.20 and later comments (\fI#\fR), empty lines, and any leading and trailing whitespace is ignored\&. Everything but a SHA\-1 per line will error out on older versions\&.
200 This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses\&. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting\&.
203 \fBfsck\&.<msg\-id>\fR
204 this variable has corresponding
205 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.skipList\fR
207 \fBfetch\&.fsck\&.skipList\fR
210 Unlike variables like
215 \fBreceive\&.fsck\&.skipList\fR
217 \fBfetch\&.fsck\&.skipList\fR
218 variables will not fall back on the
219 \fBfsck\&.skipList\fR
220 configuration if they aren\(cqt set\&. To uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances all three of them they must all set to the same values\&.
222 Older versions of Git (before 2\&.20) documented that the object names list should be sorted\&. This was never a requirement, the object names could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted list\&. Unless you had a humongous list there was no reason to go out of your way to pre\-sort the list\&. After Git version 2\&.20 a hash implementation is used instead, so there\(cqs now no reason to pre\-sort the list\&.
226 git\-fsck tests SHA\-1 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 \fB\-\-unreachable\fR flag it will also print out objects that exist but that aren\(cqt reachable from any of the specified head nodes (or the default set, as mentioned above)\&.
228 Any corrupt objects you will have to find in backups or other archives (i\&.e\&., you can just remove them and do an \fIrsync\fR with some other site in the hopes that somebody else has the object you have corrupted)\&.
230 If core\&.commitGraph is true, the commit\-graph file will also be inspected using \fIgit commit\-graph verify\fR\&. See \fBgit-commit-graph\fR(1)\&.
231 .SH "EXTRACTED DIAGNOSTICS"
233 unreachable <type> <object>
235 The <type> object <object>, isn\(cqt actually referred to directly or indirectly in any of the trees or commits seen\&. This can mean that there\(cqs another root node that you\(cqre not specifying or that the tree is corrupt\&. If you haven\(cqt missed a root node then you might as well delete unreachable nodes since they can\(cqt be used\&.
238 missing <type> <object>
240 The <type> object <object>, is referred to but isn\(cqt present in the database\&.
243 dangling <type> <object>
245 The <type> object <object>, is present in the database but never
247 used\&. A dangling commit could be a root node\&.
250 hash mismatch <object>
252 The database has an object whose hash doesn\(cqt match the object database value\&. This indicates a serious data integrity problem\&.
254 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
258 used to specify the object database root (usually $GIT_DIR/objects)
263 used to specify the index file of the index
266 GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
268 used to specify additional object database roots (usually unset)
272 Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite