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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Git history is broken; prevents github upload"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94737">94737</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Git history is broken; prevents github upload
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>Mesa
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>git
          </td>
        </tr>

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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>uli42@gmx.de
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
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        <pre>As some already posted in
<a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-February/106268.html">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-February/106268.html</a> the
project's git history is broken. While this might look like a minor cosmetical
problem it has severe impact on people who want to clone the repo to github.
Those commits prevent the upload:

$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa
Cloning into 'mesa'...
remote: Counting objects: 790257, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (117141/117141), done.
remote: Total 790257 (delta 673546), reused 785057 (delta 669000)
Receiving objects: 100% (790257/790257), 146.18 MiB | 3.67 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (673546/673546), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (4880/4880), done.
$ cd mesa
$ git remote rename origin upstream
$ git remote add origin <a href="mailto:git@github.com">git@github.com</a>:<user>/<repo>.git
$ git push -u origin --tags
Counting objects: 740005, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (113457/113457), done.
remote: error: object feb356caff82e996ba0b898c02383fdfa3effc5f:
missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
before date
remote: fatal: Error in object
error: pack-objects died of signal 13
error: failed to push some refs to '<a href="mailto:git@github.com">git@github.com</a>:<user>/<repo>.git'</pre>
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