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@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@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@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@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@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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