On Mon, Apr 17, 2023, at 07:40, Jeff King wrote: > I don't know if git-repair will fix syntactic problems in commits like > this, or if it's just looking for broken links between objects. But > regardless, it would be possible to fix these using filter-repo or other > tools. Makes sense, thanks. I gave up since the program never seemed to finish. > The problem with repairing them is that it rewrites history, changing > the object id of every commit which comes after. So you'd want to do it > once centrally for the project, and declare a flag day that everybody is > moving over to the new, fixed history. I wasn’t interested in fixing the repo for future development. Just to see if that weird git-log(1) behavior went away. It’s like the inverse of a minimal example to reproduce a bug; repair the corrupt object so that future askers can be convinced that it’s not a bug. ;) I’m not affiliated with the project. -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk
