Instead of checking reachability from the refs, you can ask fsck to check from a particular set of heads. However, the error checking here is quite lax. In particular: 1. It claims lookup_object() will report an error, which is not true. It only does a hash lookup, and the user has no clue that their argument was skipped. 2. When either the name or sha1 cannot be resolved, we continue to exit with a successful error code, even though we didn't check what the user asked us to. This patch fixes both of these cases. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/fsck.c | 7 +++++-- t/t1450-fsck.sh | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/fsck.c b/builtin/fsck.c index f527d8a02..c7d0590e5 100644 --- a/builtin/fsck.c +++ b/builtin/fsck.c @@ -755,9 +755,11 @@ int cmd_fsck(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (!get_sha1(arg, sha1)) { struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1); - /* Error is printed by lookup_object(). */ - if (!obj) + if (!obj) { + error("%s: object missing", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); + errors_found |= ERROR_OBJECT; continue; + } obj->used = 1; if (name_objects) @@ -768,6 +770,7 @@ int cmd_fsck(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) continue; } error("invalid parameter: expected sha1, got '%s'", arg); + errors_found |= ERROR_OBJECT; } /* diff --git a/t/t1450-fsck.sh b/t/t1450-fsck.sh index c1b2dda33..2f3b05276 100755 --- a/t/t1450-fsck.sh +++ b/t/t1450-fsck.sh @@ -605,4 +605,9 @@ test_expect_success 'fsck notices dangling objects' ' ) ' +test_expect_success 'fsck $name notices bogus $name' ' + test_must_fail git fsck bogus && + test_must_fail git fsck $_z40 +' + test_done -- 2.11.0.642.gd6f8cda6c