Re: alpha-1 armv7 git failed: fatal: pack is corrupted (SHA1 mismatch)

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 12:45:12PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
> Wow. I'm going to suggest doing a clone (to a temporary
> place) on one or more different types of system, such
> as aarch64 or amd64. If, say, aarch64 works but armv7
> does not, then the corruption may well be in some armv7
> FreeBSD handling of data transfers, in places common
> to both https:// and ssh:// use.
> 
That seems to have worked on a Pi4 8GB running -current:

root@nemesis:/usr # mv src src.old
root@nemesis:/usr # git clone  -o  freebsd ssh://anongit@git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /usr/src
Cloning into '/usr/src'...
The authenticity of host 'git.freebsd.org (96.47.72.109)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:y1ljKrKMD3lDObRUG3xJ9gXwEIuqnh306tSyFd1tuZE.
This key is not known by any other names.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'git.freebsd.org' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
remote: Enumerating objects: 4323641, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (381285/381285), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28204/28204), done.
remote: Total 4323641 (delta 375527), reused 353081 (delta 353081), pack-reused 3942356
Receiving objects: 100% (4323641/4323641), 1.54 GiB | 390.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3432012/3432012), done.
Checking objects: 100% (16777216/16777216), done.
Updating files: 100% (95944/95944), done.
root@nemesis:/usr # 


> Note that, if you get a good clone, you can locally
> copy the tree over to the armv7 media. But that is
> not the point of my suggestion above.

Under the circumstances it seems like the path of
least resistance. Can I do something simple like
sftp, using get -r ? Any trick to updating the copy? 

Many thanks!

bob prohaska