ELPA repository broken

[Stephen Leake]

I'm upgrading to a new computer (Windows 8.1), so I'm checking out Gnu
ELPA again.

I have two issues:

1) using git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa works until it
encounters an error:

address@hidden git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa
Cloning into 'elpa'...
remote: Counting objects: 93878, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32515/32515), done.
error: object 2699d230e3b592ae42506d7b5c969a7ac6a4593c:
zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
fatal: Error in object

Can I fix this, or does some admin have to fix it?


2) using ssh (for write access) gives a different error:

git clone ssh://address@hidden/emacs/elpa
Cloning into 'elpa'...
fatal: '/emacs/elpa' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.


I obtained this URL by replacing "git://" with "ssh://stephen_leake";
the same transformation on the emacs git URL works fine.

What is the proper ssh URL syntax for Gnu ELPA?

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-- Stephe