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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 5/9/23 10:58 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.)


Setting DECC$EFS_CHARSET in the environment might also make a difference.