Re: [PATCH 1/2] fsck: remove the unused BAD_TAG_OBJECT

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2022, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4jvtt7cd.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwn8ptb0p.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> "John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>>
>> The BAD_TAG_OBJECT msg-id is not being used anymore, so we can remove
>> it.
>
> Do you have a ready reference to the change that made it no longer
> needed (or stopped detecting the error the message was meant to be
> issued against)?

2175a0c6 (fsck: stop checking tag->tagged, 2019-10-18) stopped checking the tagged object referred to by a tag object, which the error message BAD_TAG_OBJECT was about. Since then the BAD_TAG_OBJECT message is no longer used.

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