On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > The documentation for the fsck.<msg-id> and receive.fsck.<msg-id> > variables was mostly duplicated in two places, with fsck.<msg-id> > making no mention of the corresponding receive.fsck.<msg-id>, and the > same for fsck.skipList. > [...] > Rectify this situation by describing the feature in general terms > under the fsck.* documentation, and make the receive.fsck.* > documentation refer to those variables instead. > [...] > Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt > @@ -1554,23 +1554,42 @@ filter.<driver>.smudge:: > +Depending on the circumstances it might be better to use > +`fsck.skipList` instead to explicitly whitelist those objects that > +have issues, otherwise new occurrences of the same issue will be > +hidden going forward, although that's unlikely to happen in practice > +unless someone is being deliberately malicious.
Is it worth mentioning buggy tools and/or other buggy Git implementations as sources? > fsck.skipList:: > The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per > - line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should > - be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project > - should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that > - can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses. > - Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting. > + line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and > + should be ignored. This feature is useful when an established > + project should be accepted despite early commits containing > + errors that can be safely ignored such as invalid committer > + email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with > + this setting. Not sure why this paragraph got re-wrapped (without, as far as I can see, any other changes), thus making the patch unnecessarily noisy. > +Like `fsck.<msg-id>` this variable has a corresponding > +`receive.fsck.skipList` variant.
