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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to clone an ssh repository (with ugly installation-specific workaround)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:16:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31w7iegk6.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0802111822k4600e06bp4167a09b30bf947a@mail.gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm pretty sure this worked before, but with git-1.5.4, when trying to
> clone a repository via ssh from a machine that does not have git
> installed in a standard system path, I get the following:
> 
> $ git clone -u /home/enewren/software/install/linux/git/bin/git-upload-pack
> ssh://enewren@remote/var/scratch/enewren/votd
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/newren/devel/votd/.git/
> remote: fatal: exec pack-objects failed.

git-pull(1)
[...]
       --upload-pack <upload-pack>
              When  given,  and  the  repository  to  fetch from is handled by
              git-fetch-pack, --exec=<upload-pack> is passed to the command to
              specify non-default path for the command run on the other end.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12  2:22 Unable to clone an ssh repository (with ugly installation-specific workaround) Elijah Newren
2008-02-12  7:04 ` David Symonds
2008-02-12  8:16 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-02-12  8:37   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-12 10:30     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-12 11:28       ` [PATCH] upload-pack: Initialize the exec-path Johannes Sixt
2008-02-12 11:49         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-12 12:45           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-13 13:00             ` Elijah Newren
2008-02-13 12:57       ` Unable to clone an ssh repository (with ugly installation-specific workaround) Elijah Newren
2008-02-13 14:17         ` Stephen Sinclair

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