A zero commit date could be caused by: * a missing author line * a missing commiter line * a malformed email address in the commiter line * a malformed commit date Simply reporting it as zero commit date is missleading. Additionally, it upgrades the message to an error (instead of an printf). Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-fsck.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-fsck.c b/builtin-fsck.c index 6fc9525..cc7524b 100644 --- a/builtin-fsck.c +++ b/builtin-fsck.c @@ -360,6 +360,9 @@ static int fsck_commit(struct commit *commit) fprintf(stderr, "Checking commit %s\n", sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1)); + if (!commit->date) + return objerror(&commit->object, "invalid author/committer line"); + if (memcmp(buffer, "tree ", 5)) return objerror(&commit->object, "invalid format - expected 'tree' line"); if (get_sha1_hex(buffer+5, tree_sha1) || buffer[45] != '\n') @@ -378,9 +381,6 @@ static int fsck_commit(struct commit *commit) return objerror(&commit->object, "could not load commit's tree %s", tree_sha1); if (!commit->parents && show_root) printf("root %s\n", sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1)); - if (!commit->date) - printf("bad commit date in %s\n", - sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1)); return 0; } -- 1.5.4.g22bc - 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