From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to clone an ssh repository (with ugly installation-specific workaround)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:37:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B15ADC.8080309@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31w7iegk6.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Jakub Narebski schrieb:
> "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.
>
The OP *did* use this option (rather, its short form, -u), see above.
The problem is that git-upload-pack (which is not a built-in) does not
call setup_path() and so does not extend PATH to contain the special
installation location. Now, when git-upload-pack tries to exec
git-pack-objects, it fails since this is not in PATH.
A quick work-around for Elijah is to add
GIT_EXEC_PATH=/home/enewren/software/install/linux/git/bin
to .profile on the remote host.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 8:38 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
2008-02-12 8:37 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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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