Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarified that --lost-found implies --no-reflogs

From: "Marco Luzzara via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:02:00 +0000

From: Marco Luzzara <[email-masked]>

git fsck --lost-found does not look for references in the reflog. If not specified, it could create misunderstandings like this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66401232/git-fsck-combining-lost-found-and-unreachable

Signed-off-by: Marco Luzzara <[email-masked]>
---
    docs: clarified that --lost-found implies --no-reflogs
    
    git fsck --lost-found does not look for references in the reflog. If not
    specified, it could create misunderstandings like this one: git fsck
    combining --lost-found and --unreachable
    [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66401232/git-fsck-combining-lost-found-and-unreachable]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-970%2Fmarco-luzzara%2Fmaster-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-970/marco-luzzara/master-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/970

 Documentation/git-fsck.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index bd596619c0d3..9f1db29042f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ care about this output and want to speed it up further.
 	Write dangling objects into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
 	.git/lost-found/other/, depending on type.  If the object is
 	a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
-	its object name.
+	its object name. This option implies `--no-reflogs`.
 
 --name-objects::
 	When displaying names of reachable objects, in addition to the

base-commit: 225365fb5195e804274ab569ac3cc4919451dc7f
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