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Subject: Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:19:11 +0200
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On 2009.08.31 15:10:32 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:25:22PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>=20
> > Since the client and server are the same machine:
> >=20
> >     $ git clone ssh://sitaram@localhost/home/sitaram/t/a b
> >=20
> > I'd bet Sitaram has two installations of git, and plain ssh to the
> > machine points to the old one (like a $PATH set in ~/.login and not
> > ~/.profile or something like that).
>=20
> Oh, indeed. I didn't notice that his host was @localhost. :)
>=20
> But yes, that would be my guess, as well. Trying "ssh sitaram@localho=
st
> git version" would be a good clue.

I see the problem here, too.

doener@atjola:~ $ (mkdir a; cd a; git init)
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/doener/a/.git/

doener@atjola:~ $ git clone localhost:a b
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/doener/b/.git/
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

doener@atjola:~ $ ssh localhost git --version
git version 1.6.4.2.236.gf324c

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