Re: Problems cloning git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils

[Eric Blake]

On 04/28/2017 04:18 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I follow the instructions from here:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html
> 
> to clone the coreutils git repository I run into an error, here's my
> terminal output:
> 
>   $ git --version
>   git version 2.12.2
>   $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
>   Cloning into 'coreutils'...
>   remote: Counting objects: 169874, done.
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40066/40066), done.
>   remote: Total 169874 (delta 129539), reused 169765 (delta 129464)
>   Receiving objects: 100% (169874/169874), 31.57 MiB | 4.35 MiB/s, done.
>   error: object a6727941433ee1c91a20ede6cb381af1d18c566d: 
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space before 
> date

a6727941 appears to be an old tag, COERUTILS-4_5_1, created ages ago
when we first converted coreutils from CVS to git.  git was much looser
back then.  If it really is just a broken tag, and newer git is
complaining about its brokenness, it should be possible to regenerate
the tag.  We've done similar things for other projects in the past:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2016-10/msg00014.html

and in fact I thought I had already sorted it out for coreutils:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-10/msg00038.html

although this particular error message from git is new, so it may
represent something different than the case mentioned in that link.

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