Re: error: char103: premature end of data

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote:

On Friday 08 June 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

I just tried to fetch from one of my repos which was perfectly usable 
(and fetchable) before, and got this error message:

	error: char103: premature end of data

Sorry about that. Do you have an idea of which tag object caused the 
failure? If so, could you send the output of "git-cat-file tag <name>" 
on it?

Yes, I know what causes it. A tag with an empty message.

And I even know why it does that. It's easy. Look into git-tag.sh, and you 
will find that it does a git-stripspace on the final message. If that was 
empty, then the tag will just be the tag header.

git-fsck on the repo should report the same error. If you run with -v 
(verbose) you should also get some hints as to which tag object causes 
this.

Yes, it finds the error. And crashes. And costs me time.

Why do we have to parse _everything_ in the tag to begin with? It's not 
like I will show the information of the darn thing when I just fetch it 
from repo A into repo B.

Ciao,
Dscho