Re: ELPA git repo contains zero-padded file modes and running ~$ make fails

[Tim Landscheidt]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

>>>> I have this error when git-pulling the elpa repository:

>>>>   guerry git/elpa ‹master› » git pull
>>>>   remote: Counting objects: 64150, done.
>>>>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22564/22564), done.
>>>>   error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:
>>>> zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
>>>>   fatal: erreur de fsck dans l'objet empaqueté
>>>>   fatal: échec de index-pack

>>> Known problem: just disable fsck for the initial fetch.

> Thanks.  Is there any way to fix it?

> The problem is not mentioned in those links:

> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit#toc2
> https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs

> I would not be surprised if people cannot find the solution.
> Or maybe not that many people git clone elpa after all.

> […]

Unfortunately, Bastien's note was never followed up on.
Therefore I'd like to propose to replace the calls to:

| git clone

on https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs (ELPA part) and
in ELPA's README with calls to:

| git -c fetch.fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore clone

preferably with an explanation that this option is necessary
for the initial clone due to an error in the ELPA repository
that cannot be fixed.

TIA,
Tim