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git fsck, badDate: invalid author/committer line - bad date

From
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Date
Oct 31, 2019, 08:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20191031092749.074ed112.olaf@aepfle.de>
While preparing changes for git://git.annexia.org/virt-top.git, git push to github complains:
remote: error: object c609265ccce27a902b850f5d62e6628710ee2928: badDate: invalid author/committer line - bad date
Also 'git fsck' is unhappy about a number of commits.
What is wrong with these commits, and how can the maintainer of virt-top.git repository fix his repo?
$  git  --no-pager  log -p -M --stat --pretty=fuller c609265ccce27a902b850f5d62e6628710ee2928^! | head
commit c609265ccce27a902b850f5d62e6628710ee2928
Author:     Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 5 11:39:28 2009 +0100
Commit:     Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon Oct 5 11:39:28 2009 +0100
Olaf
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