Re: Can't clone emacs.git

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/22/2017 01:51 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Zack Weinberg<address@hidden>  writes:
> > $ git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
> > Cloning into 'emacs'...
> > remote: Counting objects: 786327, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (142709/142709), done.
> > error: inflate: data stream error (invalid stored block lengths)
> > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 129019143: inflate returned -3
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> >
> > Anyone else getting this?
> I think you've probably run into this problem:
>
>    http://www.rants.org/2016/04/redis_github_clone_error/

I'm not observing the problem even with a ~/.gitconfig file that 
contains the "fsckObjects = true" line mentioned in that web page, so it 
sounds like it's some sort of network or hardware problem rather than 
overly aggressive checking.

Last year when we had this problem it was a bad SSD in a RAID system on 
Savannah; see 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2016-05/msg00081.html>. 
Zack, you may want to contact the FSF sysadmins and send them details. 
It could be that you have contacted a bad clone while the rest of us 
have been lucky enough to contact good ones.