Re: Failure trying to clone Elpa

[N. Jackson]

Thanks Noam,

At 13:31 -0400 on Sunday 2018-07-29, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>
> It's a known problem in the Elpa repository, if you have enabled
> transfer.fsckObjects in your git config, then you have to disable it
> to clone.
>
> See https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22690

I was going to say that I have no git configuration but it turns
out that I do. In addition to my name I have:

  [transfer]
          fsckObjects = true
  [fetch]
          fsckObjects = true
  [receive]
          fsckObjects = true

I read the bug report and the man page for `git clone' and then
cast around more generally in the git documentation but after an
hour or so I failed to find a way to turn off individual options
on the git command line and I failed to find a way to tell git to
ignore configuration files.

In the end, I went with the crude:

$ mv ~/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig.no; \
  git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa; \
  mv ~/.gitconfig.no ~/.gitconfig

In any case, I think that https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
should say that the emacs/elpa repository is corrupt and will fail
`git-fsck' near where it gives the command to clone the repository.