Re: [PATCH v6 17/19] fsck: Introduce `git fsck --quick`

> On 06/19/2015 10:53 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Can you think of a name for the option that is as short as `--quick`
>>> but means the same as `--connectivity-only`?
>>
>> No I can't.  I think `--connectivity-only` is a very good name that
>> is unfortunately a mouthful, I agree that we need a name that is as
>> short as `--xxxxx` that means the same as `--connectivity-only`.  I
>> do not think `--quick` is that word; it does not mean such a thing.
> 
> `--connectivity-only` says that "of all the things that fsck can do,
> skip everything except for the connectivity check". But the switch
> really affects not the connectivity part of the checks (that part is
> done in either case), but the blob part.

> [...]
> As for thinking of a shorter name for the option: assuming the blob
> integrity checks can be turned on and off independently as described
> above, then I think it is reasonable to *also* add a `--quick` option
> defined as
> 
> --quick: Skip some expensive checks, dramatically reducing the
>     runtime of `git fsck`. Currently this is equivalent to
>     `--no-check-blob-integrity`.