[Info-vax] VGIT for VMS x86-64 - failed to make .git directory

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2023-05-09 14:48:47 +0000, MJ OSEXAMINE said:

> vgit clone <repo>
> from public repositories seems to fail for me with the following error 
> error about failing to make the .git subdirectory. An example:
> 
> $ vgit clone https://github.com/vmssoftware/python_3_8_2.git
> Cloning into 'python_3_8_2'...
> Bad news:
>  failed to make directory 'python_3_8_2/.git': bad file version number [2]
> 
> Has anyone been able to get past that error?

With SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTEND and on an ODS-5 disk? If not, start there.

(I started putting these and quota checks into tooling, as that reduced 
the support.)


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