Re: [PATCH] fsck: fix bogus commit header check

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 29, 2010, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtypr5x85.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100526215034.GA6872@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> daae1922 (fsck: check ident lines in commit objects, 2010-04-24)
> taught fsck to expect commit objects to have the form
>
>   tree <object name>
>   <parents>
>   author <valid ident string>
>   committer <valid ident string>
>
>   log message
>
> The check is overly strict: for example, it errors out with the
> message “expected blank line” for perfectly valid commits with an
> "encoding ISO-8859-1" line.
> ...

Thanks.