clone fails with git 2.11

[filippog]

See also mislav/hub#1404 for a similar issue, though using --config transfer.fsckObjects=false doesn't work for me and using --depth 1 does (I'm on Debian Stretch)

$ git clone https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git
Cloning into 'librenms'...
remote: Counting objects: 116080, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
error: object 357a0c3d41f40d1050a23c8a251e23aa37f4bbf6: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed
$ echo $?
128
$ git clone --config transfer.fsckObjects=false  https://github.com/librenms/librenms.gitCloning into 'librenms'...
remote: Counting objects: 116080, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
error: object 357a0c3d41f40d1050a23c8a251e23aa37f4bbf6: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed
$ git clone --config transfer.fsckObjects=false --config fsck.zeropaddedfilemode=ignore https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git
Cloning into 'librenms'...
remote: Counting objects: 116080, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
error: object 357a0c3d41f40d1050a23c8a251e23aa37f4bbf6: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git
Cloning into 'librenms'...
remote: Counting objects: 12391, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10116/10116), done.
remote: Total 12391 (delta 2430), reused 8948 (delta 1886), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (12391/12391), 58.18 MiB | 6.14 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2430/2430), done.
$ git version
git version 2.11.0

[filippog]

FYI I found the culprit, Debian defaults to fsckobjects=true for transfer/receive/fetch, thus the following works:

git clone --config transfer.fsckobjects=false \
     --config receive.fsckobjects=false \
     --config fetch.fsckobjects=false \
https://github.com/librenms/librenms.git

In case you'd like to add it to known gotchas in CONTRIBUTING or sth like that.

[laf]

Thanks, other than us rewriting git history we can't do anything about this. Closing as this is now searchable for others.

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