7 git-fsck-cache - Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database
12 'git-fsck-cache' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--standalone | --full] [--strict] [<object>*]
16 Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database.
21 An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace.
23 If no objects are given, git-fsck-cache defaults to using the
24 index file and all SHA1 references in .git/refs/* as heads.
27 Print out objects that exist but that aren't readable from any
28 of the reference nodes.
37 Consider any object recorded in the cache also as a head node for
38 an unreachability trace.
41 Limit checks to the contents of GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
42 (.git/objects), making sure that it is consistent and
43 complete without referring to objects found in alternate
44 object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES,
45 nor packed GIT archives found in .git/objects/pack;
46 cannot be used with --full.
49 Check not just objects in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
50 (.git/objects), but also the ones found in alternate
51 object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES,
52 and in packed GIT archives found in .git/objects/pack
53 and corresponding pack subdirectories in alternate
54 object pools; cannot be used with --standalone.
57 Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode
58 recorded with g+w bit set, which was created by older
59 versions of GIT. Existing repositories, including the
60 Linux kernel, GIT itself, and sparse repository have old
61 objects that triggers this check, but it is recommended
62 to check new projects with this flag.
64 It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of
65 the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
66 corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the
67 '--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but
68 that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes.
72 git-fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/HEAD)
76 git-fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/refs/heads/*)
78 will do quite a _lot_ of verification on the tree. There are a few
79 extra validity tests to be added (make sure that tree objects are
80 sorted properly etc), but on the whole if "git-fsck-cache" is happy, you
83 Any corrupt objects you will have to find in backups or other archives
84 (ie you can just remove them and do an "rsync" with some other site in
85 the hopes that somebody else has the object you have corrupted).
87 Of course, "valid tree" doesn't mean that it wasn't generated by some
88 evil person, and the end result might be crap. Git is a revision
89 tracking system, not a quality assurance system ;)
94 expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information::
95 You haven't specified any nodes as heads so it won't be
96 possible to differentiate between un-parented commits and
99 missing sha1 directory '<dir>'::
100 The directory holding the sha1 objects is missing.
102 unreachable <type> <object>::
103 The <type> object <object>, isn't actually referred to directly
104 or indirectly in any of the trees or commits seen. This can
105 mean that there's another root node that you're not specifying
106 or that the tree is corrupt. If you haven't missed a root node
107 then you might as well delete unreachable nodes since they
110 missing <type> <object>::
111 The <type> object <object>, is referred to but isn't present in
114 dangling <type> <object>::
115 The <type> object <object>, is present in the database but never
116 'directly' used. A dangling commit could be a root node.
118 warning: git-fsck-cache: tree <tree> has full pathnames in it::
121 sha1 mismatch <object>::
122 The database has an object who's sha1 doesn't match the
124 This indicates a serious data integrity problem.
125 (note: this error occured during early git development when
126 the database format changed.)
128 Environment Variables
129 ---------------------
131 GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY::
132 used to specify the object database root (usually .git/objects)
135 used to specify the cache
140 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
144 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
148 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite