Re: Clarifying "invalid tag signature file" error message from git filter-branch (and others)

Jim Meyering wrote:

"James Youngman" [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Brandon Casey [off-list ref] wrote:

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What tool was used to convert this repository to git? It should be corrected
to produce valid annotated tags. Especially if it is a tool within git.

I don't know, Jim Meyering will know though, so I CC'ed him.

I used parsecvs, probably with git-master from the date of
the initial conversion (check the archives for actual date).
That was long enough ago that it was almost certainly before
git-mktag learned to be more strict about its inputs.

James, since you're about to rewrite the history, you may want to
start that process from a freshly-cvs-to-git-converted repository.

I'm not very happy about using cvsparse (considering it's not
really being maintained, afaik), so if the git crowd
can recommend something better, I'm all ears.

I've only used git-cvsimport. AFAIK it creates light-weight tags in
git rather than annotated tags.

It also uses an unmaintained tool: cvsps. There are some additional
patches in a git repository somewhere that fix a few known problems.

You could try that James.

-brandon