bug#25376: 25.1; Git fsck fails with elpa.git

bug#25376: 25.1; Git fsck fails with elpa.git

[Philipp Stephani]

$ LC_ALL=C git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
Cloning into 'elpa'...
remote: Counting objects: 106521, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (35625/35625), done.
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed

This happens when the option transfer.fsckObjects is true.



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0, NS appkit-1404.47 Version 10.11.6 (Build 15G1004))
 of 2016-09-22 built on p
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504
Configured using:
 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules
 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/25.1/share/info/emacs
 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/25.1 --without-x --with-xml2
 --without-dbus --without-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-ns
 --disable-ns-self-contained'

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  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
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  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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Memory information:
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bug#25376: 25.1; Git fsck fails with elpa.git

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 06 2017, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:

> $ LC_ALL=C git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
> Cloning into 'elpa'...
> remote: Counting objects: 106521, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (35625/35625), done.
> error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
> fatal: Error in object
> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> This happens when the option transfer.fsckObjects is true.

This is known and cannot be fixed.

Andreas.

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