user-manual: stub discussion of fsck and reflog
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:17:12 +0000 (00:17 -0500)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:17:12 +0000 (00:17 -0500)
Have some sort of recovery/reliability section that deals with reflog
and fsck.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Documentation/user-manual.txt

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@@ -1456,6 +1456,27 @@ $ git gc
 to recompress the archive.  This can be very time-consuming, so
 you may prefer to run git-gc when you are not doing other work.
 
+Ensuring reliability
+--------------------
+
+Checking the repository for corruption
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TODO:
+       git-fsck
+       "dangling objects" explanation
+               Brief explanation here,
+               include forward reference to longer explanation from
+                       Linus, to be added to later chapter
+
+Recovering lost changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TODO:
+       reflog
+       git-fsck
+       low-level examination of objects
+
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