# Bug/feature request: Can’t disable fsck warnings during clone

2 messages from 2017-12-28 to 2018-01-04. Participants: Kevin A. Mitchell, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/47504

## Kevin A. Mitchell, 2017-12-28 15:51

Subject: Bug/feature request: Can’t disable fsck warnings during clone
Message-ID: <CAF1p0HimkxVydxL3cfRXX0=oaBrmARzYqCbqiarWn1yvh+H-EA@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAF1p0HimkxVydxL3cfRXX0%3DoaBrmARzYqCbqiarWn1yvh%2BH-EA%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi!

I’ve set transfer.fsckObjects to true globally, for safety.
Unfortunately, this messed up my Spacevim install.

Doing some digging, I found that some of the repos had a warning. I
can turn the warning off, but that only affects git fsck, not git
clone. Turning off transfer.fsckObjects also fixes the problem. I’d
rather have it on for my development work.

Tested with the “next” branch as well.

$ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true -c fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore
clone https://github.com/albfan/ag.vim
Cloning into 'ag.vim'...
remote: Counting objects: 1879, done.
error: object 65e1a0027644b6625b32d30ba5ccf1c4d483480a:
zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object
fatal: index-pack failed
$ git —version
git version 2.15.1.501.g29533fb16

but this works as expected:

$ git clone https://github.com/albfan/ag.vim
Cloning into 'ag.vim'...
remote: Counting objects: 1879, done.
remote: Total 1879 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1879
Receiving objects: 100% (1879/1879), 1.23 MiB | 2.76 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (938/938), done.
$ cd ag.vim
$ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true -c fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore fsck
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
Checking objects: 100% (1879/1879), done.
$ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true fsck
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
warning in tree 65e1a0027644b6625b32d30ba5ccf1c4d483480a:
zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
Checking objects: 100% (1879/1879), done.

It would be useful to be able to turn off individual warnings during
cloning. Is there something I’m missing in the config? Or, is this
something that could be fixed?

Thanks,

Kevin

-- 
Kevin A. Mitchell
http://www.kamit.com/

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2018-01-04 20:28

Subject: Re: Bug/feature request: Can’t disable fsck warnings during clone
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1801042125430.32@MININT-6BKU6QN.europe.corp.microsoft.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1801042125430.32%40MININT-6BKU6QN.europe.corp.microsoft.com
In-Reply-To: <CAF1p0HimkxVydxL3cfRXX0=oaBrmARzYqCbqiarWn1yvh+H-EA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Kevin,

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Kevin A. Mitchell wrote:

> I’ve set transfer.fsckObjects to true globally, for safety.
> Unfortunately, this messed up my Spacevim install.
> 
> Doing some digging, I found that some of the repos had a warning. I
> can turn the warning off, but that only affects git fsck, not git
> clone. Turning off transfer.fsckObjects also fixes the problem. I’d
> rather have it on for my development work.
> 
> Tested with the “next” branch as well.
> 
> $ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true -c fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore
> clone https://github.com/albfan/ag.vim
> Cloning into 'ag.vim'...
> remote: Counting objects: 1879, done.
> error: object 65e1a0027644b6625b32d30ba5ccf1c4d483480a:
> zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
> fatal: Error in object
> fatal: index-pack failed
> $ git —version
> git version 2.15.1.501.g29533fb16
> 
> but this works as expected:
> 
> $ git clone https://github.com/albfan/ag.vim
> Cloning into 'ag.vim'...
> remote: Counting objects: 1879, done.
> remote: Total 1879 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1879
> Receiving objects: 100% (1879/1879), 1.23 MiB | 2.76 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (938/938), done.
> $ cd ag.vim
> $ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true -c fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore fsck
> Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
> Checking objects: 100% (1879/1879), done.
> $ git -c transfer.fsckObjects=true fsck
> Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
> warning in tree 65e1a0027644b6625b32d30ba5ccf1c4d483480a:
> zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
> Checking objects: 100% (1879/1879), done.
> 
> It would be useful to be able to turn off individual warnings during
> cloning. Is there something I’m missing in the config? Or, is this
> something that could be fixed?

Well, you can apparently have your cake and eat it too (see
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-receivefsckltmsg-idgt):

receive.fsck.<msg-id>::
        When `receive.fsckObjects` is set to true, errors can be switched
        to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>`
        setting where the `<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value
        is one of `error`, `warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes
        the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
        author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
        `receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.

In your case, use receive.fsck.zeroPaddedFilemode=ignore=warn (or
=ignore).

Ciao,
Johannes
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