[klibc] git clone failed

[Ben Hutchings]

(Resending with correct quoting, I hope.)

On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 13:00 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
> (Resending in plain text.)
> 
> Using git-2.28.0, I can't seem to clone the official repo:
> 
> ...
> warning: object c53598453ebdbbd8b8f05eed412484ad7f4d1c26:
> missingTaggerEntry: invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
> warning: object 8478c2d69b2a0722957916689f8e3bf0053a7448:
> missingTaggerEntry: invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
> warning: object 47b5b6ef17a35f1d26de04386b9e1440f4941215:
> missingTaggerEntry: invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
> warning: object ca69749605eca747fdfe26e831588e34412379ff:
> missingTaggerEntry: invalid format - expected 'tagger' line
> error: object 5640c537833ee07efbf134ac2d410e649550858c:
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space
> before date
> fatal: fsck error in packed object
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> There appear to be errors in the history preventing recent versions
> of
> git from processing this repo. I also can't clone to GitHub.

As a workaround, you can do:

    git clone -c transfer.fsckObjects=0 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git

But I suppose we will need to rewrite the invalid tags to fix this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
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