From: Eric Sunshine Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:06:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting root commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20180730092929.71114-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:30 AM Eric Sunshine wrote: > This series fixes bugs causing corruption of the root commit when > "rebase -i --root" is used to swap in a new root commit. In particular, > the "author" header has trailing garbage. Some tools handle the > corruption somewhat gracefully by showing a bogus date, but others barf > on it (gitk, for instance). git-fsck correctly identifies the > corruption. I discovered this after git-rebase corrupted one of my own > projects. Unfortunately, after sending this series, I see that there is additional corruption that needs to be addressed. In particular, the "author" header time is incorrectly prefixed with "@", so this series is going to need a re-roll to fix that, as well.