[PATCH] Add git-verify-pack command.

Given a list of <pack>.idx files, this command validates the
index file and the corresponding .pack file for consistency.

This patch also uses the same validation mechanism in fsck-cache
when the --full flag is used.

During normal operation, sha1_file.c verifies that a given .idx
file matches the .pack file by comparing the SHA1 checksum
stored in .idx file and .pack file as a minimum sanity check.
We may further want to check the pack signature and version when
we map the pack, but that would be a separate patch.

Earlier, errors to map a pack file was not flagged fatal but led
to a random fatal error later.  This version explicitly die()s
when such an error is detected.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pack.h b/pack.h
index 83ac3218bd..598477a525 100644
--- a/pack.h
+++ b/pack.h
@@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ struct pack_header {
 	unsigned int hdr_entries;
 };
 
+extern int verify_pack(struct packed_git *);
+
 #endif