# [PATCH] doc/git-fsck: change the way for getting heads' SHA1s

1 messages from 2008-12-21 to 2008-12-21. Participants: Markus Heidelberg.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16821

## Markus Heidelberg, 2008-12-21 16:30

Subject: [PATCH] doc/git-fsck: change the way for getting heads' SHA1s
Message-ID: <200812211730.22466.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200812211730.22466.markus.heidelberg%40web.de

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The straightforward way with using 'cat .git/refs/heads/*' doesn't work
with packed refs as well as branches of the form topic/topic1. So let's
use git-for-each-ref for getting the heads' SHA1s in this example.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
---
 Documentation/git-fsck.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index d5a7647..287c4fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes.
 
 So for example
 
-	git fsck --unreachable HEAD $(cat .git/refs/heads/*)
+	git fsck --unreachable HEAD \
+		$(git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads)
 
 will do quite a _lot_ of verification on the tree. There are a few
 extra validity tests to be added (make sure that tree objects are
-- 
1.6.1.rc3.54.g7bef0

```