On 30/06/15 15:39, Liam R. Howlett wrote: > * Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> [150630 10:04]: >> Hi Liam, >> >> On 29/06/15 18:23, Liam R. Howlett wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Since git 2.3, there have been a number of new fsck options added which >>> produce issues when I clone the repository >>> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa >>> >> Can you be more specific about the fsck options and the messages that >> you're seeing ? > > Sorry, I forgot to include the errors. What you mentioned below are the > same errors that I see (error in tag: .. unterminated header). > >> >>> These new tests are enabled by default when using git fsck. I have been >>> testing with git version 2.4.4.409.g5b1d901 and thought you might want >>> to know so the error/warning messages can be avoided. >>> >> From a quick look (running git 2.4.4) there are 68 "error in tag $sha: >> unterminated header" messages. >> >> By the looks of it most/all of those are old tags (which we don't care >> too much nowdays) and they are lacking the trailing \n. Afaict other >> projects have the same "problem", and the git devs are working on a fix [1]. > > Yes, it appears the errors are being reported due to the legacy tags > that were created. You can wait for git to change its behaviour or fix > the tags by recreating them. I came across an issue and wanted to be > sure that it was known since I didn't find anything about them on the > mailing list. > I'm pretty sure that some of us haven't noticed these errors and/or did not look into them yet. I know I haven't. So thank you for the heads-up!
> Thank you for your time and apologies about the lack of details in my > first email, Don't worry about it. None of us like seeing error messages so we tend to forget quoting them :P Cheers Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
