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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Failure trying to clone Elpa
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 13:31:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_wqmMn8UXhodFQSJzWdJLB6-oPPG0yvZC5ma082cvWMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1peosvg.fsf@moondust.localdomain>

On 29 July 2018 at 13:26, N. Jackson <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> wrote:

>   $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa
>   Cloning into 'elpa'...
>   remote: Counting objects: 132670, done.
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (43403/43403), done.
>   error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
>   fatal: Error in object
>   fatal: index-pack failed

> Is this a problem in Elpa or is it just user incompetence? Thanks.

It's a known problem in the Elpa repository, if you have enabled
transfer.fsckObjects in your git config, then you have to disable it
to clone.

See https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22690



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-29 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-29 17:26 Failure trying to clone Elpa N. Jackson
2018-07-29 17:31 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-07-29 21:03   ` N. Jackson
2018-07-29 21:28     ` Andreas Schwab

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