From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Dynerman Subject: Bug pushing branch to new remote via SSH Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:56:13 +0900 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 16 04:03:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQnHo-0001di-US for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 04:03:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751874AbbHPCCk (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:02:40 -0400 Received: from anti-capital.block-party.net ([94.254.0.205]:53283 "EHLO anti-capital.block-party.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751576AbbHPCCj (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:02:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 375 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:02:39 EDT Received: from CIVIC-TV.localdomain (unknown [103.5.142.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: david@block-party.net) by anti-capital.block-party.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 370002342 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:56:21 -0500 (CDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=anti-capital.block-party.net; s=dkim; t=1439690181; bh=AmOKVcLtwGHL+OM7gruzfSWvsv7izE/RNJKviW2d5Rk=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=Bz2v5Bj43VpXpiu18zLalsPqtifhhJdSA2zsEZ/PbC/8L3SVjbt8zli/LZXFpevyL vjwJaelVQ0NdjxdO3qFgXOJLKlDIinGngKyV2jcnpn6Bk0JQdMhHn89xHInH32KCXg yqYfXLhePRqsQSUqFSW/n9qJ/cqcM5zZkSu6iZCM= Received: by CIVIC-TV.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 501) id D5A351E511E4; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:56:13 +0900 (KST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, I am encountering a bizarre error message trying to push a branch to a new remote over SSH. The error message is fatal: packfile name 'remotehost.com' does not end with '.pack' Here, remotehost.com is the internet domain name of the remote host I'm trying to push to. Obviously pushing to SSH remotes isn't broken generally, so I think this is caused by some bad state in my repository. But the error message seems odd enough that I think I might be encountering a bug. If anyone has any hints on how to resolve this, I'd really appreciate it. On my laptop, which is running OS X: $ git fsck Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. Checking objects: 100% (398/398), done. $ ssh remotehost.com "git init ~/git/my_repo --bare" Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/git/my_repo/ $ git remote add remotehost ssh://remotehost.com/home/user/git/my_repo $ git push remotehost master Counting objects: 405, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (298/298), done. fatal: packfile name 'remotehost.com' does not end with '.pack' error: pack-objects died of signal 13 error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://remotehost.com/home/user/git/my_repo/' $ git --version git version 2.2.0 $ ssh remotehost.com "git --version" git version 1.7.10.1 Thank you very much, David