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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Shouldn't a warning be issued in every of those cases? I don't know, but 
> those tags pointing nowhere don't seem useful to me.

Yes they should warn.

It is not just "don't seem useful"; it is a corrupt repository.