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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-07-22 21:20:26 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-22 15:59:27 -0700
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fsck --lost-found: write blob's contents, not their SHA-1
When looking for a lost blob, it is much nicer to be able to grep through .git/lost-found/other/* than to write an inefficient loop over the file names. So write the contents of the dangling blobs, not their object names. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ index file and all SHA1 references in .git/refs/* as heads.
Be chatty.
--lost-found::
- Write dangling refs into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
- .git/lost-found/other/, depending on type.
+ 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.
It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of
the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any