From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:15:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-export and tags without a tagger
Message-ID: <7vbpv9guqd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081218164614.GS5691@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> 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:

Is "fast-export" the only thing that chokes on these tags?

What I am worried about is if we have accidentally/stupidly/by mistake
made other codepaths that check the validity of a tag object too strict,
which would result things like "git show $such_a_tag" to barf.