Missing Tagger Entry

Stephen & Linda Smith· Aug 30, 2018, 01:56 UTC · lore

I am getting the following warning when runing a git fsck command against tag v0.99.

$ git --version git version 2.18.0

$ git fsck
checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
warning in tag d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a: missingTaggerEntry: 
invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
Checking objects: 100% (254339/254339), done.
Checking connectivity: 254329, done.

Ramsay Jones· Aug 30, 2018, 02:43 UTC · re: Stephen & Linda Smith · lore

Re: Missing Tagger Entry

On 30/08/18 02:56, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote:

> I am getting the following warning when runing a git fsck command against tag 
> v0.99.

Yes, that is expected.

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> 
> $ git --version
> git version 2.18.0
> 
> $ git fsck
> checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
> warning in tag d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a: missingTaggerEntry: 
> invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
> Checking objects: 100% (254339/254339), done.
> Checking connectivity: 254329, done.

This tag is so old that it dates to before a change in the tag object format - in particular, before the 'tagger' line was included. Viz:

  $ git cat-file tag v0.99
  object a3eb250f996bf5e12376ec88622c4ccaabf20ea8
  type commit
  tag v0.99
  
  Test-release for wider distribution.
  
  I'll make the first public RPM's etc, thus the tag.
  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
  
  iD8DBQBC0b9oF3YsRnbiHLsRAlUUAKCJEyvw8tewGFKd/A3aCd82Wi/zAgCgl7z4
  GYPjO+Xio0IvuEYsrhFc2KI=
  =TVVN
  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
  $

Note the lack of a 'tagger' line, unlike a more up-to-date tag:

  $ git cat-file tag v2.18.0
  object 53f9a3e157dbbc901a02ac2c73346d375e24978c
  type commit
  tag v2.18.0
  tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1529600438 -0700
  
  Git 2.18
  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
  
  iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE4fA2sf7nIh/HeOzvsLXohpav5ssFAlsr2bYACgkQsLXohpav
  5suqEhAAgDu2A1n9G7ik+HdKoH2VNGwDqaRu/3k8znLPR6NmcOpHqopCgaxPYN4T
  gH69ff+8Le8NiOYcoWaOE2WdpGGY9Gu12N65MpxYbEhehEGo7ze4T8jDNlHz7q5B
  XC55FKHAwqy51NtdzvqNgsptc3bASy+ThxNM5XS0GSeqz00ublquHhiGTzhkBKm2
  KbexWhGWjzq0zP+wOrRIX4zU1lAOHXzjVV7G8vo3pTcg+GgK0BmiAz8zmOlef2au
  SYlU2LJCcQFm12j7pdDx42qCfZYM3QB0vJkHAcEdKYlcSEKRYUdOEnIQHxHwPPvB
  A/uogytfeExnpBd/aHA/YBKlr8FNBMZeDKGHiwxWsBK5yExxfelIFnOg27YBIxl2
  zzbMnHubBqHs5luo2Yv9JmFCbmuqV6ei6qgDKn2BXtJkuXVqYI1FYuKQyO26b3cz
  C6hF5n3OIixL0wv1S+44QqDEc/ss8kvqosT2Ypjd56dNeZripTe3jC+bqUouHblD
  NGaUn+V2YGBKc3rPw1UE3WnXgqOcbyvxn8AoZIKhJveaq7z89CbcvQYpqNjGhmrp
  OvqSVG3NUoOKGXiMAg4/a4wx6JWTyu5SLHY269tC3cPfxQkD3br6hMsBy+AXrCwq
  5yk6A3kQ2d6S9QfbWr6PGT7FI/AhG9CftFXPjpF0h9W9xbPJfkE=
  =ResM
  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
  $

You can suppress this warning by using an fsck 'skiplist':

  1) Add the following lines to your .git/config file:
	[fsck]
		skiplist = .git/skip

  2) Add the object-id of the v0.99 tag to the skiplist file:

	$ echo d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a >.git/skip

Hope this helps.

ATB, Ramsay Jones

Stephen & Linda Smith· Aug 30, 2018, 03:18 UTC · re: Stephen & Linda Smith · lore

Re: Missing Tagger Entry

On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:43:05 PM MST Ramsay Jones wrote:

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> Hope this helps.
> 
> ATB,
> Ramsay Jones

I was working on the patch for wt-status.c and thought I screwed up my git database. So I ran fsck and ran into the tag issue.

Thanks sps