From: Ian Campbell Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:49:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag Message-ID: <20170921074932.5490-4-ijc@hellion.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1505980146.4636.9.camel@hellion.org.uk> This allows us to recreate even historical tags which would now be consider invalid, such as v2.6.12-rc2..v2.6.13-rc3 in the Linux kernel source tree which lack the `tagger` header. $ git rev-parse v2.6.12-rc2 9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f $ git cat-file tag v2.6.12-rc2 | git mktag error: char76: could not find "tagger " fatal: invalid tag signature file $ git cat-file tag v2.6.12-rc2 | git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin 9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell --- git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index 956869b8e..3365a3b86 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then }' \ -e '/^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----/q' \ -e 'p' ) | - git mktag) || + git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin) || die "Could not create new tag object for $ref" if git cat-file tag "$ref" | \ sane_grep '^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----' >/dev/null 2>&1 -- 2.11.0