On 21 October 2016 at 20:11, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 10/21/2016 12:04 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> error: object ac0afbe494560392efad871a77f18c0aaa4d504a: missingEmail: >> invalid author/committer line - missing email >> > > I am not observing that problem, also with Git 2.7.4: > > $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/findutils.git tmp > Cloning into 'tmp'... > remote: Counting objects: 20126, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3683/3683), done. > remote: Total 20126 (delta 16037), reused 20126 (delta 16037) > Receiving objects: 100% (20126/20126), 10.96 MiB | 569.00 KiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (16037/16037), done. > Checking connectivity... done. > $ git --version > git version 2.7.4 > > You might try running it again. Maybe it's the DDOS on Dyn? >
I had the following setting in my .gitconfig: [transfer] # for $deity's sake, check that anything we're getting is complete and sane on a regular basis # See https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/binary-transparency/f-BI4o8HZW0 fsckobjects = true I commented it out, and the checkout succeeded. If I then run "git fsck", I get lots of "error in tag foo: missingEmail" errors, and an error exit code. I guess this is just a minor annoyance? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org