Dear Junio, thanks for the fast replies. In message <xmqqegkzzoaz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > Question is: how can we fix that? > > It could be that 4d0d8975 is buggy and barking at a non breakage. > > If there is no message in the tag, i.e. > > -- 8< -- > object 84ef51a632063e8cb57b2e9a4252497512831ffe > type commit > tag LABEL_2006_03_12_0025 > tagger Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1142119613 +0100 > -- >8 -- It seems recent tools cannot create such tags any more? > I do not offhand see why we want to require that there is a lone > blank line at the end. Hm... it seems I cannot even easily delte these tags: -> git tag -d LABEL_2006_03_12_0025 Deleted tag 'LABEL_2006_03_12_0025' (was eb394f5) -> git fsck --full Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. error in tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255: unterminated header error in tag 9bf86baaa3b35b25baa2d664e2f7f6cafad689ee: unterminated header error in tag c7071e6d645a8e13adb0d4cea2caad27213fa62f: unterminated header error in tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255: unterminated header error in tag 9bf86baaa3b35b25baa2d664e2f7f6cafad689ee: unterminated header error in tag c7071e6d645a8e13adb0d4cea2caad27213fa62f: unterminated header Checking objects: 100% (657288/657288), done. Checking connectivity: 325718, done. dangling tag eb394f56db3e05d00891d6dc36a00df0025cf255 Now I also have this "dangling tag" thingy... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx "An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth." - Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments -- 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