>From what I can see, the command responsible was
git tag empty
it still works (v1.6.0):
$ git tag this-tag-has-no-body
$ git cat-file tag this-tag-has-no-body
fatal: git-cat-file this-tag-has-no-body: bad file
$ git cat-file commit this-tag-has-no-body |head -2
tree b51a1eb73af67d17f12114ed3e1e6f93d5adbaa8
parent 49e532412bbc84e4fb73f0862df61882dd7dbf89
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <hanwenn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> see gdb trace below. Unfortunately, I don't have a repo that I can
>> readily share to demonstrate this.
>
> You have a tag that has a single incomplete line as its payload. The
> attached patch should fix it, but I wonder how you created such an unusual
> (I would not say "broken") tag to begin with?
>
>
> diff --git i/builtin-for-each-ref.c w/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> index 445039e..4d25ec5 100644
> --- i/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> +++ w/builtin-for-each-ref.c
> @@ -459,8 +459,10 @@ static void find_subpos(const char *buf, unsigned long sz, const char **sub, con
> return;
> *sub = buf; /* first non-empty line */
> buf = strchr(buf, '\n');
> - if (!buf)
> + if (!buf) {
> + *body = "";
> return; /* no body */
> + }
> while (*buf == '\n')
> buf++; /* skip blank between subject and body */
> *body = buf;
>
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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