Subject: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:25:58 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Stephen Leake reported the problem here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00867.html

Andreas Schwab analyzed it here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00887.html

The following shell transcript shows how to reproduce the problem:

$ git clone -c transfer.fsckObjects=true git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
Cloning into 'elpa'...
remote: Counting objects: 93882, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32519/32519), done.
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:contains zero-padded file 
modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed