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authorMarkus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>2008-12-21 17:30:22 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-12-21 12:04:12 -0800
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doc/git-fsck: change the way for getting heads' SHA1s
The straightforward way with using 'cat .git/refs/heads/*' doesn't work with packed refs as well as branches of the form topic/topic1. So let's use git-for-each-ref for getting the heads' SHA1s in this example. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes.
So for example
- git fsck --unreachable HEAD $(cat .git/refs/heads/*)
+ 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