How to check/verify Git repository which uses submodules?

84 views Asked by Mikko Rantalainen At 24 May 2021 at 08:08

It seems that

git fsck

doesn't check any submodules (that is, verify that submodules do not have corrupted files). Seeing that

git fsck --recursive

is not not supported either. What's the correct way to check the whole repository hierarchy?

The best I can think of would be

git fsck --no-dangling --full && git submodule foreach --recursive git fsck --no-dangling --full && echo OK

but is that enough and can we have something simpler?

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