fsck: git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing

The optional new config option `receive.fsck.skipList` specifies the path
to a file listing the names, i.e. SHA-1s, one per line, of objects that
are to be ignored by `git receive-pack` when `receive.fsckObjects = true`.

This is extremely handy in case of legacy repositories where it would
cause more pain to change incorrect objects than to live with them
(e.g. a duplicate 'author' line in an early commit object).

The intended use case is for server administrators to inspect objects
that are reported by `git push` as being too problematic to enter the
repository, and to add the objects' SHA-1 to a (preferably sorted) file
when the objects are legitimate, i.e. when it is determined that those
problematic objects should be allowed to enter the server.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fsck.h b/fsck.h
index 1dab276899..dded84b5f9 100644
--- a/fsck.h
+++ b/fsck.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct fsck_options {
 	fsck_error error_func;
 	unsigned strict:1;
 	int *msg_type;
+	struct sha1_array *skiplist;
 };
 
 #define FSCK_OPTIONS_DEFAULT { NULL, fsck_error_function, 0, NULL }