Re: Corrupted commits prevent import/export of this repo

Hi Josh,

Git is a blockchain.  You cannot change these without redoing history 
completely from those points onwards, invalidating *everyone's* repos.

Don't hold your breath for this to happen.  Ask Microsoft to fix Devops.

On 4/14/20 4:56 AM, Josh wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was hoping someone would help me with the trouble I have 
> importing/exporting this repo. To setup context I'm trying to import 
> this repo to Azure Devops where our team will work and then I would 
> periodically push updates made to the main repo 
> (https://github.com/LibreOffice/core.git) to my azure devops repo.
>
> The problem I get is that Azure Devops won't allow the import of this 
> repo due to corrupted commits. The error can be seen below:
>
> |Oops! Your import of https://github.com/LibreOffice/core.git repository 
> failed due to The commit object 657924e4d73d6d501c9a3ceaf62e29b8f243cead 
> was rejected: Commit parse failed due to author identity failed to 
> parse: Andre Fischer<andre.f.fischer <Andre 
> Fischer<andre.f.fischer@oracle.com <mailto:andre.f.fischer@oracle.com>>>|
>
>
> I may add that this is also the case if you try to import to GitHub as 
> well (I understand you can fork in the case of github). You will also 
> get this error if you clone locally and try to push to an empty repo 
> (github or azure devops).
>
> I've done some investigating as best I can and I'm almost certain it's 
> due to the inconsistent use of angle brackets or spaces. By running 
> tests locally with fast-export and import I think I've located all the 
> corrupted authors below:
>
> Andre Fischer<andre.f.fischer <Andre Fischer<andre.f.fischer@oracle.com 
> <mailto:andre.f.fischer@oracle.com>>>
> Andre Fischer<Andre.W.Fischer <Andre Fischer<Andre.W.Fischer@Sun.COM>>
> Gregor Hartmann<gh <Gregor Hartmann<gh@openoffice.org 
> <mailto:gh@openoffice.org>>>
> Joerg Skottke <Joerg Skottke [jsk] jsk@openoffice.org 
> <mailto:jsk@openoffice.org>>>
>
> Is there a way we could update these in the main repo so that me and 
> others wishing to export/import the repo could do so? If so I'm not sure 
> on the best way to go about it my knowledge of git is not particularly 
> advanced?
>
> Appreciate you reading into this
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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