Jonathan Nieder-2 wrote > Is the "[transfer] fsckObjects" configuration on the host executing the > clone set to true? I hadn't been setting it at all, and according to git-config(1) it defaults to false, so the answer is no. It looks like setting it might be a good idea. But I'm still somewhat confused about what is and is not checked under what conditions. Consider the three statements: # 1 git clone --mirror myuser@myhost:my_repo # 2 git clone --mirror --config transfer.fsckObjects=true myuser@myhost:my_repo # 3 git clone --mirror myuser@myhost:my_repo && cd my_repo.git && git-fsck Are 2 and 3 equivalent? Or is there an increasing level of checking that occurs from 1 to 2, and from 2 to 3? My guess is the latter, but perhaps this could be clearer in the man pages. git-config(1) says that transfer.fsckObjects essentially (if fetch... and receive... are not explicitly set) "git-fetch-pack will check all fetched objects" and "git-receive-pack will check all received objects." While git-fsck(1) says "git-fsck tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of the resulting reachability and everything else." The latter sounds like a stronger statement to me. But if that's true, perhaps should the relevant section(s) of git-config(1) explicitly note that this is not equivalent to a full git-fsck ? -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/propagating-repo-corruption-across-clone-tp7580504p7580839.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html