Re: git error in tag ...: unterminated header

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Jun 25, 2015, 20:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20150625201309.5026A384E81@gemini.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegkzzoaz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Dear Junio,

thanks for the fast replies.

In message <xmqqegkzzoaz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> you wrote:

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> 
> > 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 <wd@pollux.denx.de> 1142119613 +0100
>     -- >8 --

It seems recent tools cannot create such tags any more?

> I do not offhand see why we want to require that there is a lone
> blank line at the end.

Hm... it seems I cannot even easily delte these tags:

-> git tag -d LABEL_2006_03_12_0025 Deleted tag 'LABEL_2006_03_12_0025' (was eb394f5) -> git fsck --full Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. 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 error in tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255: unterminated header error in tag 9bf86baaa3b35b25baa2d664e2f7f6cafad689ee: unterminated header error in tag c7071e6d645a8e13adb0d4cea2caad27213fa62f: unterminated header Checking objects: 100% (657288/657288), done. Checking connectivity: 325718, done. dangling tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255

Now I also have this "dangling tag" thingy...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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