"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > So why is it legal to omit the tagger header from a tag? >> > >> > E.g. the Linux kernel tag v2.6.12 has no tagger header: >> >> We didn't.add tagger line until c818566 ([PATCH] Update tags to record who >> made them, 2005-07-14), which is v0.99.1~9 >> >> Linux 2.6.12 is a lot older than that. v2.6.13-rc4 in late July is the >> first one with tagger. > > Ugh. So its like the 100640 or whatever mode tags in the kernel > trees that are also considered bogus by today's standards, but have > to be allowed because of the kernel history. Yeah; don't we have "fsck --strict" or something to take the distinction into account, though? I don't recall if lack of tagger triggers the check offhand and I am too lazy to check. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html