Commit 04e6c0b9 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'cat-master-patch-22582' into 'master'

Add repository consistency checks to Geo troubleshooting

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!78461
parents 5c201c2e 2b3ba129
......@@ -432,7 +432,16 @@ If large repositories are affected by this problem,
their resync may take a long time and cause significant load on your Geo nodes,
storage and network systems.
If you get the error message `Synchronization failed - Error syncing repository` along with the following log messages, this indicates that the expected `geo` remote is not present in the `.git/config` file
If you see the error message `Synchronization failed - Error syncing repository` along with `fatal: fsck error in packed object`, this indicates
a consistency check error when syncing the repository.
One example of a consistency error is: `error: object f4a87a3be694fbbd6e50a668a31a8513caeaafe3: hasDotgit: contains '.git`.
Removing the malformed objects causing consistency errors require rewriting the repository history, which is not always an option. However,
it's possible to override the consistency checks instead. To do that, follow
[the instructions in the Gitaly docs](../../gitaly/configure_gitaly.md#repository-consistency-checks).
You can also get the error message `Synchronization failed - Error syncing repository` along with the following log messages, this indicates that the expected `geo` remote is not present in the `.git/config` file
of a repository on the secondary Geo node's file system:
```json
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