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 -- Software is communication to other human beings as much, or more so, than it is communication to computers. -- Eric S. Raymond