Re: broken link - what is it?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 24, 2007, 11:17 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241214160.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070724102457.GB18701@mellanox.co.il>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> man git-fsck does not document what "broken link" is.
> Can someone enlighten me please?

A broken link is when an object references another object, and the latter was not found in the object database.

For example, commits reference parent commits and a tree. A tree references trees and blobs. A tag references arbitrary objects.

I am not very good in writing documentation... could you give it a try?

Thanks, Dscho

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