Re: git fast-import not verifying commit author lines?

David Reiss [off-list ref] wrote:

mtn git_export produces this output on a simple repo:

blob
mark :1
data 8
content

commit refs/heads/com.example.badexport
mark :2
author <somename> 1261454209 +0000
committer <somename> 1261454209 +0000
data 8
acommit

M 100644 :1 "afile"
progress revision 9b0e11e4d66eba8a3cf26095fb573116b886cd37 (1/1)
#############################################################

The author and committer lines are missing the names (I've filed this as a
bug with monotone).  git commit-tree refuses to to produce a commit object
like this, so it seems like git fast-import should detect and report this
instead of silently writing the invalid commit object to the repository.

Nope.

These objects can still be processed by git commands, you just can't
normally create them with Git tools.  To some extent fast-import
allows the caller to import data that you wouldn't otherwise create
in Git because we know you are coming from a foreign system where
the data might not reasonably exist.

-- 
Shawn.