Push to gitlab.com fails with zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
Customer has started to mirror some of their repos from their local gitlab (self-managed) to the new remote one (gitlab.com), but running into an issue with one of their repositories, Jquery, which returns this error:
13:close stream to gitaly-ruby: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Gitlab::Git::CommandError: remote: error: object a98f1b7a267865bb78ef2a54ed54b67fbad6c839: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
remote: fatal: fsck error in packed object
error: remote unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
To
! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] 3.x-stable -> 3.x-stable (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] secure-buildFragment -> secure-buildFragment (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] 1.12-stable -> 1.12-stable (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] 2.2-stable -> 2.2-stable (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] feature/Patch.2.2 -> feature/Patch.2.2 (unpacker error)
! [remote rejected] mgol/test-flakiness -> mgol/test-flakiness (unpacker error)
error: failed to push some refs to '[FILTERED]@gitlab.com/<customername>/3rdpartytools/jquery.git'They also tried mirroring this manually as follows:
C:\projects\jquery [master ≡]> git remote rename origin old-origin
C:\projects\jquery [master ≡]> git remote add origin https://gitlab.com/<customername>/3rdpartytools/jquery.git
C:\projects\jquery [master ≡]> git push -u origin --all
Enumerating objects: 37001, done.
Counting objects: 100% (37001/37001), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (9856/9856), done.
Writing objects: 100% (37001/37001), 21.80 MiB | 1.80 MiB/s, done.
Total 37001 (delta 26510), reused 36878 (delta 26419)
remote: error: object a98f1b7a267865bb78ef2a54ed54b67fbad6c839: zeroPaddedFilemode: contains zero-padded file modes
remote: fatal: fsck error in packed object
error: remote unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
To https://gitlab.com/<customername>/3rdpartytools/jquery.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://gitlab.com/<customername>/3rdpartytools/jquery.git'
C:\projects\jquery [master ≡]>The following are two issues where it looks like the error was reported before, but no clear indication as to the resolution without having to necessarily repair the source repo.