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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-06-29 02:51:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-29 09:11:39 -0700
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[PATCH] Add git-verify-pack command.
Given a list of <pack>.idx files, this command validates the index file and the corresponding .pack file for consistency. This patch also uses the same validation mechanism in fsck-cache when the --full flag is used. During normal operation, sha1_file.c verifies that a given .idx file matches the .pack file by comparing the SHA1 checksum stored in .idx file and .pack file as a minimum sanity check. We may further want to check the pack signature and version when we map the pack, but that would be a separate patch. Earlier, errors to map a pack file was not flagged fatal but led to a random fatal error later. This version explicitly die()s when such an error is detected. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ link:git-tar-tree.html[git-tar-tree]::
link:git-unpack-file.html[git-unpack-file]::
Creates a temporary file with a blob's contents
+link:git-verify-pack.html[git-verify-pack]::
+ Validates packed GIT archive files
+
The interrogate commands may create files - and you can force them to
touch the working file set - but in general they don't