Subject: bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:54:29 +0200

Manuel Uberti via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Manuel,

> I am trying to clone the NonGNU ELPA repository in order to contribute
> with a patch, but this is what happens:
>
> $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/nongnu.git
> Cloning into 'nongnu'...
> remote: Counting objects: 425227, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (145570/145570), done.
> error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
> fatal: fsck error in packed object
> fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Try

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# git config --global transfer.fsckObjects false
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> All the best
> Manuel

Best regards, Michael.