Re: [PATCH v2 18/18] fsck: git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2015, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8ugwy094.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <dd54b4dc097f18bb3427ec6408e71ad65efd08a1.1421682369.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> The optional new config option `receive.fsck.skiplist` specifies the path
> to a file listing the names, i.e. SHA-1s, one per line, of objects that
> are to be ignored by `git receive-pack` when `receive.fsckObjects = true`.

Makes sense, but I wonder if it makes sense to have a similar "ok to be broken" list for "git fsck" (or perhaps they could even use the same list) for exactly the same reason why this option makes sense.

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