On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Before conversion:
>> $ git cat-file tag FINDUTILS-4_1-10
>> object ce25eb352de8dc53a9a7805ba9efc1c9215d28c2
>> type commit
>> tag FINDUTILS-4_1-10
>> tagger Kevin Dalley
>
> The tagger field is missing an email address, a timestamp, and a timezone. It
> should look something like:
>
> tagger Kevin Dalley <kevin.dalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1229036026 -0800
>
> git-mktag prevents improperly formatted tags from being created by checking
> that these fields exist and are well formed.
>
> If you know the correct values for the missing fields, then you could
Yes for the email address. But as for the timestamp, it's not in
the tag file; that only contains the sha1.
There is a timestamp in the object being tagged, is that the timestamp
you are talking about?
$ git show --pretty=raw ce25eb352de8dc53a9a7805ba9efc1c9215d28c2
commit ce25eb352de8dc53a9a7805ba9efc1c9215d28c2
tree 752cca144d39bc55d05fbe304752b274ba22641c
parent 9a998755249b0c8c47e8657cff712fa506aa30fc
author Kevin Dalley <kevin@xxxxxxxx> 830638152 +0000
committer Kevin Dalley <kevin@xxxxxxxx> 830638152 +0000
*** empty log message ***
diff --git a/debian.Changelog b/debian.Changelog
index e3541eb..d0cd295 100644
--- a/debian.Changelog
+++ b/debian.Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Sat Apr 27 12:29:06 1996 Kevin Dalley
<kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kevin Dalley)>
+ * find.info, find.info-1, find.info-2: updated to match find.texi
+
* debian.rules (debian): update debian revision to 10
* getline.c (getstr): verify that nchars_avail is *really* greater
> recreate the tags before doing the filter-branch. If they are unknown, it
> seems valid enough to use the values from the commit that the tag points
> to.
>
> i.e.
>
> tagger Kevin Dalley <kevin@xxxxxxxx> 830638152 -0000
>
> What tool was used to convert this repository to git? It should be corrected
> to produce valid annotated tags. Especially if it is a tool within git.
I don't know, Jim Meyering will know though, so I CC'ed him.
> The tag below was actually not converted. filter-branch bailed
> out during the conversion and so left it alone.
I see.
Thanks,
James.
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