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Re: [RFC] git-fsck-cache argument processing

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 21, 2005, 19:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505211245580.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 20 May 2005, Sean wrote:
>
>  -u, --unreachable      Show missing objects or deltas
That's the wrong description.

fsck always shows missing objects, but "--unreachable" makes it also show objects that cannot be reached from any of the references (either passed in on the command line, or the implicit references we take if no explicit reference is given).

So in many ways, "--unreachable" is about the _reverse_ of showing missing objects: it's about showing _extraneous_ objects that aren't needed by the ref that was passed in.

		Linus
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