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    fsck: git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing · cd94c6f9
    Johannes Schindelin authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    The optional new config option `receive.fsck.skipList` specifies the path
    to a file listing the names, i.e. SHA-1s, one per line, of objects that
    are to be ignored by `git receive-pack` when `receive.fsckObjects = true`.
    
    This is extremely handy in case of legacy repositories where it would
    cause more pain to change incorrect objects than to live with them
    (e.g. a duplicate 'author' line in an early commit object).
    
    The intended use case is for server administrators to inspect objects
    that are reported by `git push` as being too problematic to enter the
    repository, and to add the objects' SHA-1 to a (preferably sorted) file
    when the objects are legitimate, i.e. when it is determined that those
    problematic objects should be allowed to enter the server.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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