Re: git error in tag ...: unterminated header

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2015, 20:24 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqegkzy1ri.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150625201309.5026A384E81@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

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> Dear Junio,
>
> thanks for the fast replies.
>
> In message <xmqqegkzzoaz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> you wrote:
>> 
>> > Question is: how can we fix that?
>> 
>> It could be that 4d0d8975 is buggy and barking at a non breakage.
>> 
>> If there is no message in the tag, i.e.
>> 
>>     -- 8< --
>>     object 84ef51a632063e8cb57b2e9a4252497512831ffe
>>     type commit
>>     tag LABEL_2006_03_12_0025
>>     tagger Wolfgang Denk <wd@pollux.denx.de> 1142119613 +0100
>>     -- >8 --
>
> It seems recent tools cannot create such tags any more?

Yeah, we append an extra blank line after the last header even when there is no message. But I do not think that means what you have above is invalid.