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Summary: Hide problematic commit on `emacs/nongnu.git`
Group: Savannah Administration
Submitter: monnier
Submitted: Wed 06 Sep 2023 05:01:07 PM EDT
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Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
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Date: Wed 06 Sep 2023 05:01:07 PM EDT By: Stefan Monnier <monnier>
In the `emacs/nongnu.git` repository (more specifically in its
`externals/coffee-mode`, there is an unfortunate commit that triggers Git's
`zeroPaddedFilemode` checks during `fsck`. Nowadays, Git also performs this
check during `clone`, so when people try to clone `nongnu.git` the `clone`
operation will usuall fail with an error like:
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:
zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
The usual solution of rewriting this commit is currently impractical, but we
found an alternative which is to hide the offending commit by making that
branch "shallow".
For this reason, we need someone to go on `git.savannah.gnu.org` into the
`emacs/nongnu.git` directory and create a file named `shallow` which contains
the line below:
b1c16e50e93c662a12c49ac8f18b607656238361
(no space, just hexadecimal characters with a terminating newline). This
should (according to my tests) have the effect that fetching from that branch
will stop at that revision, thus skipping the next commit (which the one with
the problem) as well as all the subsequent ones.
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