ALERT: cimtest.git repository history recreated

In attempting to import the cimtest.git repository to gitlab I discovered some serious problems in the current git history. Specifically the author and committer email addresses were badly mangled for many commits. For example an author of: Deepti B. Kalakeri&lt;deeptik(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; <Deepti B. Kalakeri&lt;deeptik(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;&gt; This is so badly malformed that both gitlab and github refuse to allow the commits in question to be pushed. Not only that, but "git filter-branch" and "git fast-import" will both crash and burn when trying to parse these, so if you try to rewrite email addresses with "git filter-branch" it makes it even worse. The only solution was to use "git fast-export --all" to dump the entire history to a file, then hand edit this to fix the broken addresses that were confusing filter-branch, then use "git fast-import" to initialize a new repository. cimtest.git is a ancient repo that hasn't seen changes since 2014, so I'm guessing it is unlikely any current contributor has a checkout of it. If someone does though, you'll have to throw away your current checkout and get a new clone, as the history has been fully rewritten to fix this problem. I suspect the root cause dates from when we imported the original Mercurial repo into Git. Our conversion process probably mangled some addresses without us realizing at the time. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|