diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index ee702e498a..786e090785 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -384,7 +384,9 @@ static struct object *get_reference(struct rev_info *revs, const char *name,
 	if (commit)
 		object = &commit->object;
 	else
-		object = parse_object(revs->repo, oid);
+		object = parse_object_with_flags(revs->repo, oid,
+						 revs->verify_objects ? 0 :
+						 PARSE_OBJECT_SKIP_HASH_CHECK);
 
 	if (!object) {
 		if (revs->ignore_missing)
diff --git a/t/t1450-fsck.sh b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
index 53c2aa10b7..6410eff4e0 100755
--- a/t/t1450-fsck.sh
+++ b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
@@ -507,6 +507,26 @@ test_expect_success 'rev-list --verify-objects with bad sha1' '
 	test_i18ngrep -q "error: hash mismatch $(dirname $new)$(test_oid ff_2)" out
 '
 
+# An actual bit corruption is more likely than swapped commits, but
+# this provides an easy way to have commits which don't match their purported
+# hashes, but which aren't so broken we can't read them at all.
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --verify-objects notices swapped commits' '
+	git init swapped-commits &&
+	(
+		cd swapped-commits &&
+		test_commit one &&
+		test_commit two &&
+		one_oid=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+		two_oid=$(git rev-parse HEAD^) &&
+		one=.git/objects/$(test_oid_to_path $one_oid) &&
+		two=.git/objects/$(test_oid_to_path $two_oid) &&
+		mv $one tmp &&
+		mv $two $one &&
+		mv tmp $two &&
+		test_must_fail git rev-list --verify-objects HEAD
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'force fsck to ignore double author' '
 	git cat-file commit HEAD >basis &&
 	sed "s/^author .*/&,&/" <basis | tr , \\n >multiple-authors &&
diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index b217a1f469..4bacdf087c 100644
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -1420,7 +1420,8 @@ static int parse_want(struct packet_writer *writer, const char *line,
 		if (commit)
 			o = &commit->object;
 		else
-			o = parse_object(the_repository, &oid);
+			o = parse_object_with_flags(the_repository, &oid,
+						    PARSE_OBJECT_SKIP_HASH_CHECK);
 
 		if (!o) {
 			packet_writer_error(writer,