Re: [PATCH 0/6] fsck --connectivity-check misses some corruption

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:22:31PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> I came across a repository today that was missing an object, and for
> which "git fsck" reported the error but "git fsck --connectivity-check"
> did not. It turns out that the shortcut taken by --connectivity-check
> violates some assumptions made by the rest of fsck (namely, that every
> object in the repo has a "struct object" loaded).
> 
> And fsck being a generally neglected tool, I couldn't help but find
> several more bugs on the way. :)
> 
>   [1/6]: t1450: clean up sub-objects in duplicate-entry test
>   [2/6]: fsck: report trees as dangling
>   [3/6]: fsck: prepare dummy objects for --connectivity-check
>   [4/6]: fsck: tighten error-checks of "git fsck <head>"
>   [5/6]: fsck: do not fallback "git fsck <bogus>" to "git fsck"
>   [6/6]: fsck: check HAS_OBJ more consistently
> 
>  builtin/fsck.c  | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  t/t1450-fsck.sh |  70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: I tried test-merging this with my
other recent topic in the area, jk/loose-object-fsck. There are a few
conflicts in the test script, but nothing hard to resolve (just both of
them adding tests at the end, but both are careful to clean up after
themselves).

-Peff



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