Verifying a database with TortoiseGit

Asked Aug 08 '17 at 14:58

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I have never really used the Git GUI Here from the context menu in my File Explorer. I always use TortoiseGit.

However, today I decided for curiosity to use the aforementioned utility. I noticed on the File menu it had Verify Database. It did come up with some results:

Comments about dangling commits and blobs.

My primary question is how do I do this database verification with TortoiseGit? And related to this, what is the importance of the results returned to me?

Thank you.

asked Aug 08 '17 at 14:58

Andrew Truckle

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AFAIK, no such function in TortoiseGit. Want to fire an issue? Go https://tortoisegit.org/issues :) – Yue Lin Ho Aug 09 '17 at 05:23
About your second question: see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Maintenance-and-Data-Recovery – Yue Lin Ho Aug 09 '17 at 05:27
@YueLinHo Added here: https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/issues/3048 – Andrew Truckle Aug 09 '17 at 08:56
@YueLinHo This is interesting: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck – Andrew Truckle Aug 09 '17 at 08:56
@YueLinHo I still feel this question warrents an answer - atleast from the point of view of the dangling commits and if / how to resolve them. – Andrew Truckle Dec 27 '21 at 16:40

Verifying a database with TortoiseGit

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