The comment added says it all: if we have lost all references in a git
archive, git-fsck-objects should still work, so instead of dying it should
just notify the user about that condition.
This change was triggered by me just doing a "git-init-db" and then
populating that empty git archive with a pack/index file to look at it.
Having git-fsck-objects not work just because I didn't have any references
handy was rather irritating, since part of the reason for running
git-fsck-objects in the first place was to _find_ the missing references.
However, "--unreachable" really doesn't make sense in that situation, and
we want to turn it off to protect anybody who uses the old "git prune"
shell-script (rather than the modern built-in). The old pruning script
used to remove all objects that were reported as unreachable, and without
any refs, that obviously means everything - not worth it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/fsck-objects.c b/fsck-objects.c
index ae0ec8d..24286de 100644
--- a/fsck-objects.c
+++ b/fsck-objects.c
@@ -425,8 +425,23 @@ static int fsck_handle_ref(const char *r
static void get_default_heads(void)
{
for_each_ref(fsck_handle_ref);
- if (!default_refs)
- die("No default references");
+
+ /*
+ * Not having any default heads isn't really fatal, but
+ * it does mean that "--unreachable" no longer makes any
+ * sense (since in this case everything will obviously
+ * be unreachable by definition.
+ *
+ * Showing dangling objects is valid, though (as those
+ * dangling objects are likely lost heads).
+ *
+ * So we just print a warning about it, and clear the
+ * "show_unreachable" flag.
+ */
+ if (!default_refs) {
+ error("No default references");
+ show_unreachable = 0;
+ }
}
static void fsck_object_dir(const char *path)
-
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