From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Eric Sun (ericsun2)" <ericsun2@cisco.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bridge-utils: request to fix git tags
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251212130020.7a555eb3@stephen-xps.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161B0C34-1F18-4010-B89B-738DA12F77DC@cisco.com>
On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:26:02 +0000
"Eric Sun (ericsun2)" <ericsun2@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The bridge-utils git repo [1] has several tags that cause recent-ish git fsck
> to fail with the missingSpaceBeforeDate error [2]. This is frustrating when
> working with github, where such cosmetic errors are not ignored by default as
> they are by other platforms (e.g. gitlab).
>
> Though bridge-utils is deprecated, I was hoping somebody with access might be
> willing to fix up the tags?
>
> I've verified that something like [3, see: "How to work around that issue..."]
> address it correctly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/bridge/bridge-utils.git
> [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck#Documentation/git-fsck.txt-missingSpaceBeforeDate
> [3] https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/36
>
>
> Cisco Confidential
I can see if this is fixable. But sometimes old stuff has to be preserved
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2025-12-12 2:26 bridge-utils: request to fix git tags Eric Sun (ericsun2)
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