From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:37:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git fsck messages - what to do about it?
Message-ID: <200509161937.j8GJbv62018950@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <wd@denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> When running git fsck I get some messages:
> 
> -> git-fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/HEAD .git/refs/heads/*)
> unreachable commit 08cf4121ad704faa5ae7c7ae7b3dca4476ef2770
> unreachable tree 29a4c18afd958cc6cee938f0fe7fa59764418097

[...]

> I have to admit that I don't know what to do next...
> 
> a) I understand that these  messages  are  indications  of  problems,
>    right? What can I do to clean this up?

One of the nits I'd like to pick is that git-fsck does only check, not
(like its filesystem counterparts) fix the problems it finds.
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