[systemd-devel] Errors/warnings when cloning systemd

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Liam R. Howlett <
Liam.Howlett at windriver.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since git 2.3, there have been a number of new fsck options added which
> produce issues when I clone the repository
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
>
> $ git fsck --full
> Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
> warning in tag 2a440962bc639c674cef95f5dee6f184c5daf170: invalid format
> - expected 'tagger' line


This is fine, old git versions (until mid-2005) used to create tags without
a 'tagger' field and you can find those everywhere including git.git itself.

error in tag e1ea4e5f1c429fbe62e76fc5b42bee32c2dcd770: unterminated
> header
> error in tag f298b6a712bbe700fe1dbac5b81cdc7dd22be26d: unterminated
> header
> error in tag 4ea98ca6db3b84f5bc16eac8574e5c209ec823ce: unterminated
> header
>

Also seems to be caused by old-format tags – when there was no message,
git-tag didn't write the separating empty line either.

These new tests are enabled by default when using git fsck.  I have been
> testing with git version 2.4.4.409.g5b1d901 and thought you might want
> to know so the error/warning messages can be corrected.
>

Not sure if it's worth fixing it, the post-clone fsck does not show such
warnings, only a full fsck does. And existing repos wouldn't fetch the
updated tags.

Though it could be done easily using
https://gist.github.com/c66d9ad2cfd1395a97fa or similar scripts.

Also note that the primary repository is at
https://github.com/systemd/systemd these days.

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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