I ran into the problem of not being able to clone the coreutils repo because git-fsck reporting errors.
E.g. like reported here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2019-02/msg00023.html What worked for me was to use git -c fetch.fsck.missingSpaceBeforeDate=warn clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/coreutils.git I've added the following to the coreutils .git/config: [fsck] skiplist = .git/fsck-skiplist missingSpaceBeforeDate = warn That lets me run 'git fsck' without aborting on the first non-compliant commit. --chris
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