On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 03:17:01PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > FWIW, I just tried it with > > git clone --shared ~otheruser/nongnu > > and got the same result. > I also tried with another repository, still with the same result (tho > different pack.idx names, of course). I've tried several times to reproduce this, but I am unable to do so. You may need to provide the tarball with ~otheruser/nongnu contents for someone to be able to properly debug this. -K