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bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:25:05 -0700 |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> `git show 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c` suggests this is
> part of `coffee-mode`, and indeed:
>
> git -c 'Transfer.fsckObjects=true' clone
> https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode
>
> gives me the same warning (tho it's a warning rather than an error).
>
> Just use
>
> git -c 'Transfer.fsckObjects=false' clone ...
>
> to workaround the problem. I think the problem is fundamentally in
> Git's camp: the format that `fsckObjects` enforces is incompatible with
> the data it used to generate, and since rewriting history is a big
> problem, it's not something that can be fixed.
I don't think users will realize that, though. They'll blame us for
having a broken repository.
So I'd personally very much prefer rewriting the git history to living
with the ugly workaround until the end of days. I guess that was the
position of the Git developers as well (or they would have fixed it).
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/01
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2023/09/01
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Corwin Brust, 2023/09/06
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/08
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2023/09/08
- bug#65241: 30.0.50; Cannot clone NonGNU ELPA, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/08