From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Unable to clone an ssh repository (with ugly installation-specific workaround) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:16:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <51419b2c0802111822k4600e06bp4167a09b30bf947a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Elijah Newren" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 12 09:16:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOqJu-0001kf-2J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:16:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750917AbYBLIQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:16:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751189AbYBLIQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:16:15 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:4520 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750893AbYBLIQO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:16:14 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so443455ugc.16 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:16:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=dY+NpGFJUdQwHfcbi25CIQnWfNvqcCjLPQtGKoFDylU=; b=XxqY8A1XTSVOIIn+CSeODDTBioEl7L0ZnhBXHlnbA4K2darEkPgJutRz4a55Z4oXGQg1ZD69v2uUzLHE+rULw1fOXzJOV31Vbc6eu8QpA5cDPVNkU+fkzXawXQrbCVjmVSjWruCfzu4b/6gIXY8/JEKJ5CAoSv2WY4vP7aNNhWg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=FhKLbEmph7Y3lK5q8FhaoBOpVmOGSSaFm0cABId0VjwtCDBhhCu0UwdhiPnOJbEHTBK67lw8YyeYgi9ufp3S5jJs87CAe8RVAN4aUO2IzuSY19aUBrv1aiJtwFCuJI1vwx5lkkBGZQU//UtMNl118GLHnk735Ze0I2bki0ibESA= Received: by 10.67.115.19 with SMTP id s19mr251862ugm.70.1202804172947; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.220.23]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u6sm9241500uge.83.2008.02.12.00.16.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m1C8FlFb022820; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:15:57 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m1C8FbgC022816; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:15:37 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0802111822k4600e06bp4167a09b30bf947a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Elijah Newren" 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 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled by git-fetch-pack, --exec= is passed to the command to specify non-default path for the command run on the other end. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git