Eric Blake wrote: > > I get lots of "error in tag foo: missingEmail" errors, and an error exit > > code. I guess this is just a minor annoyance? > > Sounds like the tags were created in a much older version of git, and > that newer git complains about what the older version was able to > create. The solution is probably to recreate those tags with a valid > format, although propagating new tags to anyone that already has the old > ones checked out is not easy.
Here's how the Automake repository got fixed regarding this type of error: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2016-06/msg00004.html
