[Freeswitch-users] git push invalid format

Tue Mar 10 16:56:41 MSK 2015

I suspect it's performing some sanity checks that git commit does not.
Which you could then argue is either a bug or feature in git.

On 10 March 2015 at 11:33, Ben Langfeld <ben at langfeld.co.uk> wrote:

> git fsck complains about it.
>
> ➭ 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% (294760/294760), done.
> dangling commit f62e8f0e250b35bbadb7367082127304f3e72e74
> dangling commit dc844f983605a015bf600232864122b94a278e76
>
> On 9 March 2015 at 23:21, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
>>  Git itself doesn’t say this is an invalid commit (we use stash/git and
>> its perfectly fine with this)... There is a git-lint process that github
>> uses and it rejects this commit
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/15, 6:57 PM, "Ben Langfeld" <ben at langfeld.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <http://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 <
>> http://aronp@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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