Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack tagger

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:06:20AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:

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Such as v2.6.12-rc2..v2.6.13-rc3 in the Linux kernel source tree.

Insert a fake tag header, since newer `git mktag` wont accept the input
otherwise:

Hmm. Now your resulting tag will have this crufty "unknown@example.com"
header baked into it, won't it?

Should we instead make git-mktag more lenient (possibly with a
command-line option to reduce accidental omissions)?

That sounds sensible. Thanks for injecting a dose of sanity.