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Re: Crashes while trying to show tag objects with bad timestamps

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 22, 2013, 22:53 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I guess we should probably issue a warning, too. Also disappointingly,
> git-fsck does not seem to detect this breakage at all.

Yes for the warning, and no for disappointing. IIRC, in the very early implementations allowed tag object without dates.

I _think_ we can start tightening fsck, though.
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Message 3 of 16 in “Crashes while trying to show tag objects with bad timestamps”
  1. Mantas MikulėnasFeb 22, 2013
  2. Jeff KingFeb 22, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2013
  4. Jeff KingFeb 22, 2013
  5. Mantas MikulėnasFeb 22, 2013
  6. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2013
  8. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2013
  9. 1/4 handle malformed dates in ident linesJeff King, Feb 25, 2013
  10. 2/4 skip_prefix: return a non-const pointerJeff King, Feb 25, 2013
  11. 3/4 fsck: check "tagger" linesJeff King, Feb 25, 2013
  12. 4/4 cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"Jeff King, Feb 25, 2013
  13. Mantas MikulėnasFeb 25, 2013
  14. hash-object doc: "git hash-object -w" can write invalid objectsJonathan Nieder, Feb 22, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2013
  16. Jeff KingFeb 22, 2013

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