new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Sun May 26 04:08:52 GMT 2024

I upgraded to the most recent git and I get the following error
( stable2.45.1-1x86_648597 KiB2024-05-25 18:58 )
$ git clone -v https://github.com/lxml/lxml.git
Cloning into 'lxml'...
POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 8652 to 4281 bytes)
remote: Enumerating objects: 33933, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3778/3778), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1322/1322), done.
remote: Total 33933 (delta 2356), reused 3471 (delta 2241), pack-reused
30155
Receiving objects: 100% (33933/33933), 20.19 MiB | 15.38 MiB/s, done.
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
when I downgraded to 2.43.0-1x86_648402 KiB2024-01-07 20:32
I was able to get the repository download
$ git clone -v https://github.com/lxml/lxml.git
Cloning into 'lxml'...
POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (gzip 8652 to 4281 bytes)
remote: Enumerating objects: 33933, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3778/3778), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1322/1322), done.
remote: Total 33933 (delta 2356), reused 3471 (delta 2241), pack-reused
30155
Receiving objects: 100% (33933/33933), 20.19 MiB | 13.13 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (16518/16518), done.