Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > --strict + --check-self-contained-and-connected check that the pack > is self-contained. In the process they mark each object that is > reachable from another object in the pack with FLAG_LINK. > > The objects not marked with FLAG_LINK are the roots. Ahh, OK, if we already have the code that does it, I have no objection. At some point before finalizing the pack on the disk we would want to run fsck on all objects anyway, so having to pass "--strict" to find objects that lack FLAG_LINK does not sound too big a downside. Thanks. -- 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