What does git fsck stand for?

Question

What is the meaning in behind the fsck command name?

The documentation of the command does not seem to mention what the name stands for.

Irretentive

When you are going to use fsck it's because things are really messed up, but they can't swear in git commands so they replaced a vowel with an s – Tridentum

Answer 1

It stands for File System ChecK. The name is taken from the Unix fsck command, which is used to validate a file system.

While Git is not technically a file system, it can be used analogously and the command name is a metaphor on this.

Peerless

@LopSae, note that Git originally was envisioned as a versioned file system, and only subsequently grew into a full-fledged DVCS. – Erebus

I had to scroll down to the other answer, which does a bit better job in explaining it. This answer is no good. – Coupler

Git was not in fact ever a file system, as it required one to function, but rather a DVCS made from the perspective of a file system, which made it much fasyer – Aesthete

@Aesthete True, but like many computer-related terms, it's metaphorical. – Peerless

Answer 2

It was first called:

• fsck-cached (git 0.99), to check the repository for errors
• then fsck-objects (git 0.99.8), in order to report what exactly is wrong with the object, instead of an ambiguous 'bad sha1 file'.
• and finally git fsck (git 1.5.0, January 2007)

It reflects that Git was initially built as a file system, with a graph of nodes and git fsck is presented in this GitHub Training as a file system check which verifies integrity and finds corrupt objects.

Checkroom