Bryan Newbold writes ("Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when Maintainer has `,` in name"): > Package: dgit > Version: 2.14 > Severity: important ... > I assume this line was added to prevent breakage where the comma would result > in parsing as multiple email addresses, but I could be wrong. Removing the > above line allowed the full Maintainer string to be passed through for me. I > don't understand the original motivation well enough to propose a patch.
I don't think the git format permits commas here. After removing that line and doing a fetch, please try `git fsck' ? I think the fix to this will be rather more complicated. Ian.