diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 3287c7ef8a..161ffe259e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1731,11 +1731,12 @@ all three of them they must all set to the same values.
 +
 Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the object names
 list should be sorted. This was never a requirement, the object names
-can appear in any order, but when reading the list we track whether
-the list is sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search
-implementation, which can save itself some work with an already sorted
-list. Unless you have a humongous list there's no reason to go out of
-your way to pre-sort the list.
+could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether
+the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search
+implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted
+list. Unless you had a humongous list there was no reason to go out of
+your way to pre-sort the list. After Git version 2.20 a hash implementation
+is used instead, so there's now no reason to pre-sort the list.
 
 gc.aggressiveDepth::
 	The depth parameter used in the delta compression
diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index 972a26b9ba..4c643f1d40 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 #include "fsck.h"
 #include "refs.h"
 #include "utf8.h"
-#include "sha1-array.h"
 #include "decorate.h"
 #include "oidset.h"
 #include "packfile.h"
@@ -182,19 +181,10 @@ static int fsck_msg_type(enum fsck_msg_id msg_id,
 
 static void init_skiplist(struct fsck_options *options, const char *path)
 {
-	static struct oid_array skiplist = OID_ARRAY_INIT;
-	int sorted;
 	FILE *fp;
 	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
 	struct object_id oid;
 
-	if (options->skiplist)
-		sorted = options->skiplist->sorted;
-	else {
-		sorted = 1;
-		options->skiplist = &skiplist;
-	}
-
 	fp = fopen(path, "r");
 	if (!fp)
 		die("Could not open skip list: %s", path);
@@ -202,19 +192,12 @@ static void init_skiplist(struct fsck_options *options, const char *path)
 		const char *p;
 		if (parse_oid_hex(sb.buf, &oid, &p) || *p != '\0')
 			die("Invalid SHA-1: %s", sb.buf);
-		oid_array_append(&skiplist, &oid);
-		if (sorted && skiplist.nr > 1 &&
-				oidcmp(&skiplist.oid[skiplist.nr - 2],
-				       &oid) > 0)
-			sorted = 0;
+		oidset_insert(&options->skiplist, &oid);
 	}
 	if (ferror(fp))
 		die_errno("Could not read '%s'", path);
 	fclose(fp);
 	strbuf_release(&sb);
-
-	if (sorted)
-		skiplist.sorted = 1;
 }
 
 static int parse_msg_type(const char *str)
@@ -319,9 +302,7 @@ static void append_msg_id(struct strbuf *sb, const char *msg_id)
 
 static int object_on_skiplist(struct fsck_options *opts, struct object *obj)
 {
-	if (opts && opts->skiplist && obj)
-		return oid_array_lookup(opts->skiplist, &obj->oid) >= 0;
-	return 0;
+	return opts && obj && oidset_contains(&opts->skiplist, &obj->oid);
 }
 
 __attribute__((format (printf, 4, 5)))
diff --git a/fsck.h b/fsck.h
index 0c7e8c9428..b95595ae5f 100644
--- a/fsck.h
+++ b/fsck.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef GIT_FSCK_H
 #define GIT_FSCK_H
 
+#include "oidset.h"
+
 #define FSCK_ERROR 1
 #define FSCK_WARN 2
 #define FSCK_IGNORE 3
@@ -35,12 +37,12 @@ struct fsck_options {
 	fsck_error error_func;
 	unsigned strict:1;
 	int *msg_type;
-	struct oid_array *skiplist;
+	struct oidset skiplist;
 	struct decoration *object_names;
 };
 
-#define FSCK_OPTIONS_DEFAULT { NULL, fsck_error_function, 0, NULL }
-#define FSCK_OPTIONS_STRICT { NULL, fsck_error_function, 1, NULL }
+#define FSCK_OPTIONS_DEFAULT { NULL, fsck_error_function, 0, NULL, OIDSET_INIT }
+#define FSCK_OPTIONS_STRICT { NULL, fsck_error_function, 1, NULL, OIDSET_INIT }
 
 /* descend in all linked child objects
  * the return value is: