On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:10:52PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> In the case of git-fsck, which uses the
> DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN flag, this will cause us to
> erroneously complain that the ref points to an invalid
> object. But for git-repack, which does not use that flag, we
> will skip the ref completely!

Hmm. This is slightly inaccurate. fsck does not use INCLUDE_BROKEN, and
that is why it recognizes (and prints the warning) the "broken" ref.
pack-objects would also print a warning, but would dutifully ignore the
broken ref during the repack.

So it is actually something like for-each-ref, which _does_ use
INCLUDE_BROKEN, that behaves differently. And it tends to work, because
it ends up calling read_sha1_file to find out about the file rather than
checking has_sha1_file.

-Peff
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