On 04/28/2017 04:18 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > When I follow the instructions from here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html > > to clone the coreutils git repository I run into an error, here's my > terminal output: > > $ git --version > git version 2.12.2 > $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils > Cloning into 'coreutils'... > remote: Counting objects: 169874, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40066/40066), done. > remote: Total 169874 (delta 129539), reused 169765 (delta 129464) > Receiving objects: 100% (169874/169874), 31.57 MiB | 4.35 MiB/s, done. > error: object a6727941433ee1c91a20ede6cb381af1d18c566d: > missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space before > date
a6727941 appears to be an old tag, COERUTILS-4_5_1, created ages ago when we first converted coreutils from CVS to git. git was much looser back then. If it really is just a broken tag, and newer git is complaining about its brokenness, it should be possible to regenerate the tag. We've done similar things for other projects in the past: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2016-10/msg00014.html and in fact I thought I had already sorted it out for coreutils: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-10/msg00038.html although this particular error message from git is new, so it may represent something different than the case mentioned in that link. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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