Re: Problems cloning git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> When I follow the instructions from here:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html
> 
> to clone the coreutils git repository I run into an error, here's my
> terminal output:
> 
>   $ git --version
>   git version 2.12.2
>   $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
>   Cloning into 'coreutils'...
>   remote: Counting objects: 169874, done.
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40066/40066), done.
>   remote: Total 169874 (delta 129539), reused 169765 (delta 129464)
>   Receiving objects: 100% (169874/169874), 31.57 MiB | 4.35 MiB/s, done.
>   error: object a6727941433ee1c91a20ede6cb381af1d18c566d: 
> missingSpaceBeforeDate: invalid author/committer line - missing space before 
> date
>   fatal: Error in object
>   fatal: index-pack failed
>   $
> 
> I've tried the clone on 3 different machines all running different
> versions of git so I'm reasonably confident that the repository
> corruption is in the upstream repository.

Cloning the repository worked for me:

$ git --version
git version 1.9.1
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
Cloning into 'coreutils'...
remote: Counting objects: 169874, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40066/40066), done.
remote: Total 169874 (delta 129539), reused 169765 (delta 129464)
Receiving objects: 100% (169874/169874), 31.57 MiB | 757.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (129539/129539), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

The problem might only show itself with newer Git version?

Thanks,
Erik
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