The existing documentation led the user to believe that all we were doing were basic reachability sanity checks, but that hasn't been true for a very long time. Update the description to match reality, and note the caveat that there's a quarantine for accepting pushes, but not for fetching. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index af7311e73f..71b3805b4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -3341,8 +3341,16 @@ transfer.fsckObjects:: Defaults to false. + When set, the fetch or receive will abort in the case of a malformed -object or a broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling -objects. +object or a link to a nonexistent object. In addition, various other +issues are checked for, including legacy issues (see `fsck.<msg-id>`), +and potential security issues like the existence of a `.GIT` directory +(see the release notes for v2.2.1 for details). Other sanity and +security checks may be added in future releases. ++ +On the receiving side, failing fsckObjects will make those objects +unreachable, see "QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT" in +linkgit:git-receive-pack[1]. On the fetch side, malformed objects will +instead be left unreferenced in the repository. transfer.hideRefs:: String(s) `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` use to decide which -- 2.17.0.290.gded63e768a
