<div dir="ltr">I think in the end it falls on git itself, why does it allow you to do this in the first place if its not valid.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Ben Langfeld <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ben@langfeld.co.uk" target="_blank">ben@langfeld.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sure, that&#39;s fine. As I&#39;ve said, I&#39;m not campaigning for any kind of fix, I&#39;m simply trying to understand how it happened. Might be useless information, but if anyone knows, I&#39;d be interested to find out.<div><br></div><div>It does seem unfair, however, to blame it on Github ;)</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 March 2015 at 13:14, I put the Who? in Mishehu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mishehu@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">mishehu@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    <div>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 &#39;committer&#39;
      line, but not the others, on my system.  I guess it&#39;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&#39;re talking about is simply a metadata &quot;problem&quot;.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
      <br>
      <pre cols="72">-- 
Yossi Neiman


</pre></font></span><div><div>
      On 03/10/2015 08:56 AM, Steven Ayre wrote:<br>
    </div></div></div><div><div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">I suspect it&#39;s performing some sanity checks that
        git commit does not. Which you could then argue is either a bug
        or feature in git.
        <div>
          <div>
            <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
            </div>
            <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
            </div>
            <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
              <div class="gmail_quote">On 10 March 2015 at 11:33, Ben
                Langfeld <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ben@langfeld.co.uk" target="_blank">ben@langfeld.co.uk</a>&gt;</span>
                wrote:<br>
                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                  <div dir="ltr">git fsck complains about it.
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div><span>
                        <div>➭ git fsck</div>
                        <div>Checking object directories: 100%
                          (256/256), done.</div>
                        <div>error in commit
                          487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4:
                          invalid format - expected &#39;committer&#39; line</div>
                        <div>error in commit
                          8574988c3a378b4d5861ecaeb0e958657635703b:
                          invalid format - expected &#39;committer&#39; line</div>
                      </span>
                      <div>Checking objects: 100% (294760/294760), done.</div>
                      <div>dangling commit
                        f62e8f0e250b35bbadb7367082127304f3e72e74</div>
                      <div>dangling commit
                        dc844f983605a015bf600232864122b94a278e76</div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <div>
                      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                        <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2015 at
                          23:21, Ken Rice <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krice@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">krice@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;</span>
                          wrote:<br>
                          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                            <div>
                              <font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">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<span><br>
                                    <br>
                                    <br>
                                    On 3/9/15, 6:57 PM, &quot;Ben Langfeld&quot;
                                    &lt;<a href="http://ben@langfeld.co.uk" target="_blank">ben@langfeld.co.uk</a>&gt;
                                    wrote:<br>
                                    <br>
                                  </span></span></font>
                              <blockquote><span><font face="Monaco,
                                    Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">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&#39;m curious.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      On 9 March 2015 at 20:12, Steven
                                      Ayre &lt;<a href="http://steveayre@gmail.com" target="_blank">steveayre@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                                      wrote:<br>
                                    </span></font></span>
                                <blockquote><span><font face="Monaco,
                                      Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">Plus it&#39;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.<br>
                                        <br>
                                        (that&#39;s why git makes it easy to
                                        amend your latest uncommitted
                                        commit message but rather
                                        difficult to edit any others)<br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                        <br>
                                        On 9 March 2015 at 13:41,
                                        Michael Jerris &lt;<a href="http://mike@jerris.com" target="_blank">mike@jerris.com</a>&gt;
                                        wrote:<br>
                                      </span></font></span>
                                  <blockquote><span><font face="Monaco,
                                        Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">We are
                                          not rewriting history to fix
                                          this so it doesn&#39;t really
                                          matter who is right or wrong.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Mike<br>
                                          <br>
                                        </span></font></span>
                                    <blockquote><span><font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">On
                                            Mar 9, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Ben
                                            Langfeld &lt;<a href="http://ben@langfeld.co.uk" target="_blank">ben@langfeld.co.uk</a>&gt;
                                            wrote:<br>
                                            <br>
                                          </span></font><font size="1"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana,
                                            Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">I&#39;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?<br>
                                              <br>
                                              On 9 March 2015 at
                                              09:01,  &lt;<a href="http://cmrienzo@gmail.com" target="_blank">cmrienzo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
                                            </span></font></font></span>
                                      <blockquote><font size="1"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana,
                                            Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">I
                                              switched to <a href="http://bitbucket.org" target="_blank">bitbucket.org</a>
                                              &lt;<a href="http://bitbucket.org/" target="_blank">http://bitbucket.org/</a>&gt;
                                               just for the FreeSWITCH
                                              repo to work around this. <span><br>
                                                <br>
                                                <br>
                                                On Mar 8, 2015, at
                                                20:34, Ken Rice &lt;<a href="http://krice@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">krice@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;
                                                wrote:<br>
                                                <br>
                                              </span></span></font></font>
                                        <blockquote><font face="Monaco,
                                            Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span>This
                                                is a known issue with
                                                github and will not be
                                                fixed <br>
                                                <br>
                                                <br>
                                                <br>
                                              </span>
                                              <div>
                                                <div>
                                                  On 3/8/15, 3:39 PM,
                                                  &quot;Podrigal, Aron&quot; &lt;<a href="http://aronp@guaranteedplus.com" target="_blank">aronp@guaranteedplus.com</a>
                                                  &lt;<a href="http://aronp@guaranteedplus.com/" target="_blank">http://aronp@guaranteedplus.com/</a>&gt;
                                                  &gt; wrote:<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                </div>
                                              </div>
                                            </span></font>
                                          <div>
                                            <div>
                                              <blockquote><font face="Monaco, Courier
                                                  New"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi,<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    I&#39;m trying to push
                                                    the freeswitch git
                                                    repo to my github,
                                                    but I get the
                                                    following error<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    remote: error:
                                                    object
                                                    487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4:invalid
                                                    format - expected
                                                    &#39;committer&#39; line<br>
                                                    remote: fatal: Error
                                                    in object<br>
                                                    channel_by_id: 0:
                                                    bad id: channel free<br>
                                                    Received window
                                                    adjust for non-open
                                                    channel 0.<br>
                                                    error: pack-objects
                                                    died of signal 13<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    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.<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    here is the output
                                                    of git fsck<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                    Checking object
                                                    directories: 100%
                                                    (256/256), done.<br>
                                                    error in commit
                                                    487128950df6ee433c131b5feaafe81ee86629f4:
                                                    invalid format -
                                                    expected &#39;committer&#39;
                                                    line<br>
                                                    error in commit
                                                    8574988c3a378b4d5861ecaeb0e958657635703b:
                                                    invalid format -
                                                    expected &#39;committer&#39;
                                                    line<br>
                                                    Checking objects:
                                                    100%
                                                    (254227/254227),
                                                    done.<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                  </span></font></blockquote>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                        </blockquote>
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <div>
                                      <div><font face="Monaco, Courier
                                          New"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
                                            <br>
_________________________________________________________________________<br>
                                            Professional FreeSWITCH
                                            Consulting Services:<br>
                                            <a href="http://consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                            <a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
                                            <br>
                                            Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
                                            <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                            <a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                            <a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
                                            <br>
                                            FreeSWITCH-users mailing
                                            list<br>
                                            <a href="http://FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                            <a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                            UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                            <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                          </span></font></div>
                                    </div>
                                  </blockquote>
                                  <div>
                                    <div><font face="Monaco, Courier
                                        New"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
                                          <br>
_________________________________________________________________________<br>
                                          Professional FreeSWITCH
                                          Consulting Services:<br>
                                          <a href="http://consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                          <a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
                                          <br>
                                          Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
                                          <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                          <a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                          <a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
                                          <br>
                                          FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
                                          <a href="http://FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                          <a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                          UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                          <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                        </span></font></div>
                                  </div>
                                </blockquote>
                                <font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
                                    <br>
                                    <hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%"></span></font><span><font><font face="Consolas, Courier New,
                                      Courier"><span style="font-size:10pt">_________________________________________________________________________<br>
                                        Professional FreeSWITCH
                                        Consulting Services: <br>
                                        <a href="http://consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
                                        <br>
                                        Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
                                        <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
                                        <br>
                                        FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
                                        <a href="http://FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                        UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                                      </span></font></font></span></blockquote>
                              <font><font face="Consolas, Courier New,
                                  Courier"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
                                  </span></font></font><span><font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">-- <br>
                                    Ken<br>
                                    <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.FreeSWITCH.org" target="_blank">http://www.FreeSWITCH.org</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://www.ClueCon.com" target="_blank">http://www.ClueCon.com</a><br>
                                        <a href="http://www.OSTAG.org" target="_blank">http://www.OSTAG.org</a><br>
                                      </u></font><a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>
                                    #freeswitch<br>
                                    Twitter: @FreeSWITCH<br>
                                    <br>
                                  </span></font>
                              </span></div>
                            <br>
_________________________________________________________________________<br>
                            Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br>
                            <a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
                            <a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
                            <br>
                            Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
                            <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                            <a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                            <a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
                            <br>
                            FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
                            <a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                            <a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                            UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                            <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                          </blockquote>
                        </div>
                        <br>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                  <br>
_________________________________________________________________________<br>
                  Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br>
                  <a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
                  <a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
                  <br>
                  Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
                  <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                  <a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                  <a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
                  <br>
                  FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
                  <a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                  <a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                  UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
                  <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
                </blockquote>
              </div>
              <br>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
      <fieldset></fieldset>
      <br>
      <pre>_________________________________________________________________________
Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: 
<a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a>
<a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a>

Official FreeSWITCH Sites
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a>
<a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a>
<a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a>

FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
<a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>
<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a>
UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a>
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a></pre>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
  </div></div></div>

<br>_________________________________________________________________________<br>
Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br>
<a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
<br>
Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
<br>
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>
</div></div><br>_________________________________________________________________________<br>
Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br>
<a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br>
<br>
Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br>
<br>
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>
UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br>
<a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">







<p><font face="courier new, monospace"><b><i><font size="4">Brian West</font></i></b><br><span style="font-size:x-small"><a href="mailto:brian@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">brian@freeswitch.org</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace"><img src="http://billing.freeswitch.org/templates/default/img/whmcslogo.png"><br></font></p><p><font face="courier new, monospace"><b><i>Twitter: @FreeSWITCH , @briankwest</i></b><br><a href="http://www.freeswitchbook.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchbook.com</a><br><a href="http://www.freeswitchcookbook.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchcookbook.com</a></font></p>
<p><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>T:</b>+19184209001 | <b>F:</b>+19184209002 | <b>M:</b>+1918424WEST (9378)<br><b>iNUM:</b>+883 5100 1420 9001 | <b>ISN:</b>410*543 | <b>Skype:</b>briankwest</font></p></div></div>
</div>