From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 22690@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1eszAL-0005Oj-KR@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcf92dd4-3cbd-c3d2-49bd-e9962de86c84@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800)
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> As I understand it the problem is that the repository data uses a Git
> format that was a mistake and has been deprecated in later Git releases.
> Current versions of Git do not generate this mistaken format, and
> optionally warn if they discover it in the repository (the mistaken
> format still works otherwise). Our repository contains data that was
> generated by an older Git that had the bug.
What practical problems does this cause for us?
Do we have another repo that we can use?
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2016-02-15 23:25 bug#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah Paul Eggert
2018-03-05 2:24 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <E1esptR-0006JS-RC@fencepost.gnu.org>
2018-03-05 17:33 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-05 23:05 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-03-05 23:25 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-06 20:52 ` Richard Stallman
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