[Freeswitch-users] git push invalid format

[Ben Langfeld]

I understand very well why rewriting history is undesirable and how git
works. What I wonder is what process was used to convince git to create a
commit which it would later say is invalid. As I said, I'm curious.

On 9 March 2015 at 20:12, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Plus it's rather annoying to do so (rewrite history). The identifier of
> each commit is a hash computed from the content of the commit plus the
> metadata which includes the authors. Changing the author would change the
> identifier of the commit. That then changes the identifier of every commit
> afterwards. That then breaks every checkout / fork based off the tree as
> they no longer know where they are forked from. And since identifiers have
> all been rewritten we would no longer know what version you were running,
> or what version bug reports were reported against.
>
> (that's why git makes it easy to amend your latest uncommitted commit
> message but rather difficult to edit any others)
>
>
>
>
> On 9 March 2015 at 13:41, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>
>> We are not rewriting history to fix this so it doesn't really matter who
>> is right or wrong.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Ben Langfeld <ben at langfeld.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious about this one... If git fsck complains about the issue, what
>> is the justification for saying that Github is broken? How were these
>> commits created with a format that git itself complains about?
>>
>> On 9 March 2015 at 09:01,  <cmrienzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I switched to bitbucket.org just for the FreeSWITCH repo to work around
>>> this.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2015, at 20:34, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a known issue with github and will not be fixed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/8/15, 3:39 PM, "Podrigal, Aron" <aronp at guaranteedplus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to push the freeswitch git repo to my github, but I get the
>>> following error
>>>
>>>
>>> remote: error: object 487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4:invalid
>>> format - expected 'committer' line
>>> remote: fatal: Error in object
>>> channel_by_id: 0: bad id: channel free
>>> Received window adjust for non-open channel 0.
>>> error: pack-objects died of signal 13
>>>
>>> This is caused by having multiple authors on a commit (which in general
>>> is not allowed by git) and github verifies the commits and rejects it.
>>>
>>> here is the output of git fsck
>>>
>>> Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
>>> error in commit 487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4: invalid format
>>> - expected 'committer' line
>>> error in commit 8574988c3a378b4d5861ecaeb0e958657635703b: invalid format
>>> - expected 'committer' line
>>> Checking objects: 100% (254227/254227), done.
>>>
>>>
>>
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