On 21 October 2016 at 20:32, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10/21/2016 02:25 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/21/2016 12:18 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> fsckobjects = true > >> β > >> β 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? > > > > More like a major annoyance, I'm afraid. It means that the findutils > > repository is slightly incompatible with Git and needs to be fixed on > > Savannah. (If memory serves, this is due to a bug in older Git.) Fixing > > a repository is not something one does lightly since it involves > > changing history. > > Can we ascertain whether it is only unsigned tags that are affected (in > which case deleting the broken tags and pushing corrected replacement > tags with the same name in their place will solve the issue for all new > clones, because commits remain unchanged), or are there also commits > affected (in which case rewriting history will involve creating new > commit ids for all descendants of the problematic commit, which is a > rather dramatic effect, and which breaks any signed tags to old commit > ids)?
T βhey seem only to be tags: git fsck --verbose says only for each error: Checking tag 68c0e85dba93471b4f7d450ae2e6139a56574549 error in tag 68c0e85dba93471b4f7d450ae2e6139a56574549: missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email β I can't see any errors for commits. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
