How to check status of bare repo in git

Question

I have a bare repo cloned and need to check if the repo is broken. I tried running git status, but it says:

fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree.

I have also tried running git gc and it returns non-zero if the repo is broken. But this takes hell of a time as repo size is big.

Any alternate approach in doing this?

Update: I have tried git fsck, and this also takes more or less same time as git gc. The repo size is almost ~16 gb :(

if by "checking the repo" you mean you want to check that all commits have valid parents, and a valid content, then I am afraid you will have to pay the cost to dig through those 16GB -- hence the time taken by `git gc` or `git fsck`. Do you have a suitable smaller scope in mind ? — LeGEC, Jul 27 '21 at 07:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 06:35

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Specifically: git maintenance start

If it starts successfully, the repository is not broken.

answered Jul 27 '21 at 06:35

VonC

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '21 at 06:09

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You are probably looking for git fsck:

git fsck --verbose --full --strict

answered Jul 27 '21 at 06:09

Peter Badida

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