user-manual: stub discussion of fsck and reflog
Have some sort of recovery/reliability section that deals with reflog
and fsck.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 30adc72..00e445d 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1456,6 +1456,27 @@
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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