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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-20 17:50:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-20 17:50:51 -0400 |
| commit | 66ccc37a99994f1206d308c0c0003ac2605d3c42 (patch) | |
| tree | 17fd97ca91a7c963cf80ac1274c94ac841e8572c /doc/git-recover-repository.mdwn | |
| parent | 66e2c6e3a16480e25f82ef447cfebac16997aac5 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/git-recover-repository.mdwn b/doc/git-recover-repository.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b05903d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/git-recover-repository.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# NAME + +git-recover-repository - Fix a broken git repository + +# SYNOPSIS + +git-recover-repository [--force] + +# DESCRIPTION + +This can fix a corrupt or broken git repository, which git fsck would +only complain has problems. + +It does by deleting all corrupt objects, and retreiving all missing +objects that it can from the remotes of the repository. + +If that is not sufficient to fully recover the repository, it can also +reset branches back to commits before the corruption happened. It will only +do this if run with the --force option, since that rewrites history +and throws out missing data. + +# AUTHOR + +Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> + +<http://git-annex.branchable.com/> + +Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care |