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

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 05:03:03 -0700

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> And indeed, when I try it now, I don't get an error any more, so maybe
> it's been fixed in more recent versions of Git?
> When you try
>
>     git -c 'Transfer.fsckObjects=true' clone https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode
>
> do you get an error or a warning?  I get a warning here with Git-2.39.2
> from Debian stable.

I get an error using the most recent Git version from Homebrew on macOS:

$ git --version
git version 2.42.0
$ git -c 'Transfer.fsckObjects=true' clone
https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode
Cloning into 'coffee-mode'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1847, done.
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:
zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: fsck error in packed object
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
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