From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming Lei Subject: fsck-object --standalone got errors Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:35:08 -0800 Message-ID: <440F945C.2010401@brocade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 09 03:35:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHAzo-0005B8-PS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:35:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161001AbWCICfR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:35:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161006AbWCICfR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:35:17 -0500 Received: from mail55.messagelabs.com ([216.82.240.35]:8165 "HELO mail55.messagelabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161001AbWCICfP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:35:15 -0500 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: mlei@Brocade.COM X-Msg-Ref: server-6.tower-55.messagelabs.com!1141871709!72676214!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.9.1; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [66.243.153.112] Received: (qmail 16116 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 02:35:09 -0000 Received: from f112.brocade.com (HELO blasphemy.brocade.com) (66.243.153.112) by server-6.tower-55.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 9 Mar 2006 02:35:09 -0000 Received: from hq-ex-2.corp.brocade.com (hq-ex-2 [192.168.38.63]) by blasphemy.brocade.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1B41425C for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from brocade.com ([192.168.78.243]) by hq-ex-2.corp.brocade.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:35:08 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2006 02:35:08.0945 (UTC) FILETIME=[1526C810:01C64322] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have a repository created by GIT itself(not cognito, etc). It has branches called base, master and origin. When I did git-fsck-objects --full there is nothing shown, but when I did git-fsck-objects --standalone, it displayed following: error: refs/heads/master: invalid sha1 pointer ea51c414519ffe78c5bf95c488e94e82d3603472 error: refs/heads/base: invalid sha1 pointer 4b75aaeb5af2dc69374ad080020758e4de6a45d2 error: refs/heads/origin: invalid sha1 pointer f4c9503abb2ad52752004e8e9b77b72e23d18d3e fatal: No default references The question is: what's the purpose for this standalone check? what's these errors about? Do I need to care these errors? what's the step to ensure my repository always be in a good shape? Is running fsck-objects --full sufficient? Thanks Ming