From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:43:08 GMT
Subject: Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509260941340.3308@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050926163846.GD21019@pasky.or.cz>



On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Actually, it would be nice to be able to tell git-fsck-objects to only
> verify objects which are referenced between given two commits (perhaps
> just make it support the ^object notation). Then I wouldn't mind running
> that after each rsync fetch in Cogito.

You can kind of do it.

Do

	git-rev-list --objects $oldheads --not $newheads >& /dev/null
	echo "$?"

and it _should_ largely work. Untested, of course, but I _hope_ that if 
any object is missing, git-rev-list should die with an error. And if it 
doesn't, I should fix it ;)

		Linus