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Clarifying "invalid tag signature file" error message from git filter-branch (and others)

From
James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Date
Dec 11, 2008, 10:14 UTC
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<c5df85930812110214k2e12d926m60856fb630d45e80@mail.gmail.com>

What do the errors "error: char88: malformed tagger field" and "fatal: invalid tag signature file" and "Could not create new tag object for FINDUTILS-4_1-10" signify in the session below?

Are any of those errors correctable (I can re-run the tree rewrite script as many times as needed, I'm just using it on a test repository for now).

The script I'm invoking calls git filter-branch; I've attached the script.

$ bash ~/source/GNU/findutils/logrewrite.sh fatal: Not a git repository Rewrite 9afb13614381c4bfa22f515c18cbfe6f54798330 (1587/1587) Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten FINDUTILS-4_1-10 -> FINDUTILS-4_1-10 (ce25eb352de8dc53a9a7805ba9efc1c9215d28c2 -> 79221244237bc408ced0c37f3c3476d53e665801) error: char88: malformed tagger field fatal: invalid tag signature file Could not create new tag object for FINDUTILS-4_1-10 $

Thanks, James.

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