[Mesa-dev] Mesa master: 'current' 'git fsck' version catching content which was always bad but not reported before

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 08.04.2017 02:54, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 'current' git version here: git version 2.12.2
>
> https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/2115
> Comment from: philpennock commented on 27 Dec 2016
>
> [-]
> This is a git fsck change dating from around git 2.5ish, catching
> content which was always bad but not reported before. Anyone not seeing
> this is working with ancient git(1). Current release is 2.11.0.
>
> The repo has bad content which may continue to work for old clients, or
> anyone not doing repo integrity checks, but is really now in "technical
> debt" status. There are scripts floating around to rewrite git history
> to fix this date formatting issue; pushing that will then become a
> "force push" and so require the usual "oh no not another force-push flag
> day" song and dance.
> [-]
>
> Output looks like this:
> /opt/mesa> git fsck
> Prüfe Objekt-Verzeichnisse: 100% (256/256), Fertig.
> error in tag feb356caff82e996ba0b898c02383fdfa3effc5f:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> error in tag 5562545645baea8e3d8409d712ab0a5da90e355c:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> error in tag 81cbf07eddf3bb65866db8baa1be47cd4f417088:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> error in tag 9d03a22875b313388d28b211a5751e037d9a45c9:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> error in tag ee54d15473093647dc2c9a3d0718537f2db64323:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> [-]

I see this too. As long as it just concerns tags, we can probably just 
go through them, see if any of them are still relevant, and delete the rest?

Some of them seem to be tags of old Mesa releases, e.g. 
d3d91230e1fbceda678c125c66c16ee910337e08. Those could perhaps be deleted 
and re-created.

Cheers,
Nicolai


>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter
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