Git repo issues: contains zero-padded file modes

[mpoli]

When checking out with a

git clone https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel.git

and then running a:

git fsck

The result is a number of objects with the zero-padded error:

Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
warning in tree 97ccaaaca7f975a4153b4e20802fa2e270a42e9e: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree fae9b191cc78c08fe47e01c737baa7400aab884c: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree a0ccb9dc4a1678a85ddeb3fb109664fdd8c3dd11: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree d45e2f6075f73b472839b41911b5c0ea7d34d89f: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree a734576da3970183692ada5f3013b8f189660208: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree edbd9648eeedc9583bd74577acab89e315950b82: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree 8f6b7d3e84ab3b15dbfa9d755ef18c177d65fbb5: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree fbfd8a4b17cf2d7ed07ae78909c021a89f64ef97: contains zero-padded file modes
warning in tree ab81961e4e9266ff8d5e738a8d1b8df0e340a8fb: contains zero-padded file modes
Checking objects: 100% (64519/64519), done.

Seems like github will not complain about it, but Gitlab is refusing a push taking that as unacceptable errors.

[kyleboyle]

Yes this is very annoying. I spent some time trying to fix it using the export/import methods found on the web. But then merging from origin is broken so it's not worth it.

[kakulukia]

i cant clone the repo due to this bug .. how come that this is still open? Whats the trick to still be able to clone the repo?