Re: [PATCH 00/17] Fixes and improvements for ref consistency checks

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 09:37:14PM +0800, shejialuo wrote:

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

quoted

Hi,

this patch series contains a bunch of fixes and improvements for ref
consistency checks. It is structured as follows:

  - Patches 1 to 4 contain a couple of cleanups for the consistency
    checks done by the "files" backend.

  - Patches 5 to 7 introduce checks for root refs for the "files"
    backend.

  - Patches 9 to 14 introduce infrastructure for shared checks with the
    "files" and "reftable" backend.

  - Patches 15 to 17 move some ref consistency checks that were still
    driven by git-fsck(1) into `git refs verify`.

Thanks!

Patrick

I left some comments. In conclusion, I very appreciate the direction to
share the common logic for both "files" backend and "reftable" backend.
And also, we could check the correctness of `HEAD` to make the ref
subsystem self-contained.

Thanks for your review!

Patrick