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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2013-12-03 15:02:21 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2013-12-03 15:02:21 -0400 |
commit | a4f3e112954e1b785c84c339bcbd83597a89335e (patch) | |
tree | eb2a975663782f83e6b20d6d239447d7222de81b /git-repair.1 | |
download | git-repair-a4f3e112954e1b785c84c339bcbd83597a89335e.tar.gz |
git-repair (1.20131203) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix build deps. Closes: #731179
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diff --git a/git-repair.1 b/git-repair.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..146840f --- /dev/null +++ b/git-repair.1 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.TH +.SH NAME +git\-repair \- Fix a broken git repository +.PP +.SH SYNOPSIS +git\-repair [\-\-force] +.PP +.SH DESCRIPTION +This can fix a corrupt or broken git repository, which git fsck would +only complain has problems. +.PP +It does by deleting all corrupt objects, and retreiving all missing +objects that it can from the remotes of the repository. +.PP +If that is not sufficient to fully recover the repository, it can also +reset branches back to commits before the corruption happened, delete +branches that are no longer available due to the lost data, and remove any +missing files from the index. It will only do this if run with the +\fB\-\-force\fP option, since that rewrites history and throws out missing data. +Note that the \fB\-\-force\fP option never touches tags, even if they are no +longer usable due to missing data. +.PP +After running this command, you will probably want to run \fBgit fsck\fP to +verify it fixed the repository. Note that fsck may still complain about +objects referenced by the reflog, or the stash, if they were unable to be +recovered. This command does not try to clean up either the reflog or the +stash. +.PP +Since this command unpacks all packs in the repository, you may want to +run \fBgit gc\fP afterwards. +.PP +.SH AUTHOR +Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> +.PP +<http://git\-repair.branchable.com/> +.PP +.PP |