On January 3, 2018 02:15:08 Kevin Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Upon cloning the main mesa repository, git with fsckObjects enabled
(receive, transfer, fetch) reports an error:
error: object c2908f1b53c841bfa450b066c6fa1ee78c2fdb85:
missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing
space before date
ba
This is true of anongit.freedesktop.org as well as github.com/mesa3d/mesa.
Someone mentioned this object in a previous thread:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2016-February/106268.html
but it seems not to have been addressed. This should be straightforward
for a maintainer to fix with some investigation, git-fsck magic and
force push rights.
It's that last one that's the problem. It's not that no one has force-push
rights, it does happen in very rare cases. However, if solving this
problem requires blowing away years worth of git SHAs, that's not going to
happen. We use commit SHAs to tie things such as bug closures to the git
history and breaking all those links would be bad. Worse yet is that doing
so would make hash of people's development branches and, lest you think
that's no big deal, some of us have hundreds of them lying around.
--Jason
_______________________________________________
mesa-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
