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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git - index-pack missing
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:16:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081218031639.GA20749@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Michael Boutros wrote:

> I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting account 
> that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for some reason 
> there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that that one 
> particular command would not be installed, but for some reason that seems 
> to be the case.

How did you install git? From a binary package, from a tarball, from a
clone? If built, how did you build it? Any config.mak options, did you
use ./configure, etc? What version of git is it?

Is it possible for you to strace the clone process to see where it is
trying to find index-pack? Something like:

  strace -f -e execve git clone

should do it.

> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to  
> completely scrap Git and try again?

That might work, but if this is a bug in the build or installation
system, it will be nice to track it down before you scrap the current
setup.

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 23:40 Git - index-pack missing Michael Boutros
2008-12-18  3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-18  3:16 ` Jeff King [this message]

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