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check snapshots, trees and blobs
no errors were found
By default, check creates a new temporary cache directory to verify that the
data stored in the repository is intact. To reuse the existing cache, you can
use the ``--with-cache`` flag.
If the cache directory is not explicitly set, then ``check`` creates its
temporary cache directory in the temporary directory, see :ref:`temporary_files`.
Otherwise, the specified cache directory is used, as described in :ref:`caching`.
By default, ``check`` will use the current cache, and it will verify each cache object before
proceeding to make sure that there is no bit rot in the local cache. You can
explicitely request ``check`` to acquire a temporary cache via option ``--temporary-cache``.
Alternative you can tell ``check`` not to verify the cache by using option ``--no-cache-verify``.
By default, the ``check`` command does not verify that the actual pack files
on disk in the repository are unmodified, because doing so requires reading