From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:46:14 GMT
Subject: git-fast-export and tags without a tagger
Message-ID: <20081218164614.GS5691@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

Tags created with ancient versions of git have no tagger. The udev repo
has such tags, for example:

$ git cat-file tag 4ea98ca6db3b84f5bc16eac8574e5c209ec823ce
object face198a5f21027fefe796dc01e19e349a2d36ce
type commit
tag 062

fast-export will fail on these repos. From IRC:

20:05 < Keybuk> vmiklos: exactly the same error with 1.6.0.5
20:07 < Keybuk> $ git fast-export --signed-tag=strip --all
20:07 < Keybuk> fatal: No tagger for tag 4ea98ca6db3b84f5bc16eac8574e5c209ec823ce

I think it would be nice to handle the situation better than just die().

What about a --force option that would fake the tagger in case the tag
points to a commmit and use the commiter from there?

I'm willing to work on this, but I thought it's better to discuss the
right solution for the problem first.

Thanks.