bug#23839: automake git repository not cloneable with fsckobjects=true

[Kyle J. McKay]

On Oct 21, 2016, at 13:22, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 06/24/2016 04:16 AM, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
> > The automake git repository on git.savannah.gnu.org is unclonable
> > when transfer.fsckObjects=true is set because it contains invalid
> > annotated (but unsigned) tag objects.
> >
> > These tag objects should be fixed.
> >
> > Since they are tag objects, they will not break anyone's forks as
> > the forks will be off the commit they refer to.  Since they are
> > unsigned, there are no signatures to invalidate by fixing them.
> >
> > There's really no downside to fixing these broken tag objects.
> >
> > To this end, I have included the contents of an "automake-fix- 
> > tags.txt"
> > file (that can be fed to git fast-import to correct the problem
> > tags) at the end of this email.  The missing email and timestamp
> > information to fix the broken tag objects was taken from the commit
> > object that each of the problem tags refers to.
>
> Can you show the script you used to generate the contents of
> 'automake-fix-tags.txt'? I'd like to repeat that fix for  
> findutils.git.

The script (export-fixed-tags) is now available from:

  https://gist.github.com/9ea081513f6b90bb4470b7b2bc6e4bce

If you want to clone it (there's just the one file) use:

  git://gist.github.com/9ea081513f6b90bb4470b7b2bc6e4bce.git

The script does seem to work properly on the findutils.git repository  
and I have added some usage comments at the top to facilitate its use.

--Kyle