From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:05:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Verifying the whole repository
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20810230705l20339a1dj87b855bf3321f796@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30810230659n15f44f64l571a0df3dbe104d9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

> As git is fundamentally hash based it's a lot easier to determine the
> health of the repository but I wonder if it's possible for silent
> corruption to creep in which won't be noticed until you try and
> checkout a historical commit of the tree. I notice there is a
> git-verify-pack command that checks the pack files are OK. Do any of
> the other commands implicitly ensure all objects in the repo are
> correct and valid? git-gc?

Try:  git fsck --full --strict


Dave.