Hi Eric, On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:30 AM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This series fixes bugs causing corruption of the root commit when > > "rebase -i --root" is used to swap in a new root commit. In particular, > > the "author" header has trailing garbage. Some tools handle the > > corruption somewhat gracefully by showing a bogus date, but others barf > > on it (gitk, for instance). git-fsck correctly identifies the > > corruption. I discovered this after git-rebase corrupted one of my own > > projects. > > Unfortunately, after sending this series, I see that there is > additional corruption that needs to be addressed. In particular, the > "author" header time is incorrectly prefixed with "@", so this series > is going to need a re-roll to fix that, as well. AFAIR the `@` was not an oversight, but required so that we could pass in the Unix epoch. Ciao, Dscho
