[Freeswitch-users] git push invalid format

Tue Mar 10 19:27:56 MSK 2015

Sure, that's fine. As I've said, I'm not campaigning for any kind of fix,
I'm simply trying to understand how it happened. Might be useless
information, but if anyone knows, I'd be interested to find out.

It does seem unfair, however, to blame it on Github ;)

On 10 March 2015 at 13:14, I put the Who? in Mishehu <mishehu at freeswitch.org
> wrote:

>  Not only that but it seems that it works differently on different builds
> and/or versions of git.  I only receive the first two messages about
> expected 'committer' line, but not the others, on my system.  I guess it's
> sometimes better to just sweep some very minor things under the rug than
> trying to gut out everything to fix it - especially when what we're talking
> about is simply a metadata "problem".
>
> --
> Yossi Neiman
>
>
>
> On 03/10/2015 08:56 AM, Steven Ayre wrote:
>
> 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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