Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] builtin/fsck: add `git refs verify` child process

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:56:53 +0100

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 02:00:07PM +0800, shejialuo wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
> index 5b82e4605c..9bd433028f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  'git fsck' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--no-reflogs]
>  	 [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found]
>  	 [--[no-]dangling] [--[no-]progress] [--connectivity-only]
> -	 [--[no-]name-objects] [<object>...]
> +	 [--[no-]name-objects] [--[no-]references] [<object>...]
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> @@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ care about this output and want to speed it up further.
>  	progress status even if the standard error stream is not
>  	directed to a terminal.
>  
> +--[no-]references::
> +	Control whether to check the references database consistency
> +	via 'git refs verify'. See linkgit:git-refs[1] for details.

I think we should note the default, which is to check them.

It would also be nice to have a couple of tests to verify that the flag
does what it is intended to do.

Patrick