Re: git error in tag ...: unterminated header
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:05:31
Wolfgang Denk [off-list ref] writes:
it turns out that recent versions of git (i. e. git version 2.2.0 or later, resp. anything which includes commit 4d0d8975 "Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the buffer") throws errors on our git repository git://git.denx.de/u-boot: -> git fsck --full Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. error in tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255: unterminated header error in tag 9bf86baaa3b35b25baa2d664e2f7f6cafad689ee: unterminated header error in tag c7071e6d645a8e13adb0d4cea2caad27213fa62f: unterminated header Checking objects: 100% (328644/328644), done. Checking connectivity: 325719, done. Apparently for some reason the tags LABEL_2006_03_12_0025, LABEL_2006_04_18_1106, and LABEL_2006_05_19_1133 are missing newlines, which was undetected so far, but now is raised as an error. Question is: how can we fix that?
It could be that 4d0d8975 is buggy and barking at a non breakage.
If there is no message in the tag, i.e.
-- 8< --
object 84ef51a632063e8cb57b2e9a4252497512831ffe
type commit
tag LABEL_2006_03_12_0025
tagger Wolfgang Denk [off-list ref] 1142119613 +0100
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I do not offhand see why we want to require that there is a lone
blank line at the end.
Dscho? What do you think?