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Linus and other git developers from the early days trained their fingers to type the command, every once in a while even without thinking, to check the consistency of the repository back when the lower core part of the git was still being developed. Developers who wanted to make sure that git correctly dealt with packfiles could deliberately trigger their creation and checked them after they were created carefully, but loose objects are the ones that are written by various commands from random codepaths. It made some technical sense to have a mode that checked only loose objects from the debugging point of view for that reason. Even for git developers, there no longer is any reason to type "git fsck" every five minutes these days, worried that some newly created objects might be corrupt due to recent change to git. The reason we did not make "--full" the default is probably we trust our filesystems a bit too much. At least, we trusted filesystems more than we trusted the lower core part of git that was under development. Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1 checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum. That trust in the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but it may not be true anymore as we run on many more platforms these days. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.
It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of
hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
commandname".
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
installed).
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/
including full documentation and Git related tools.
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org. To subscribe
to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites.
The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
reference for project status, development direction and
remaining tasks.