From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git - index-pack missing
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:15:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr646i37v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com> (Michael Boutros's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:40:40 -0500")
Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com> writes:
> 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.
You may want to study output from "git help --all" to see if there is
anything *else* that is missing. You did not say which version of git you
use, and how it was built and installed with which non-standard options
and in what way, so it is hard to guess what is going on.
Perhaps:
$ cd ~root
$ grep 'rm .*index-pack' .history .bash_history
could help locating the cause of breakage, but there are other ways to
break your installation, so...
> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?
Not me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 3:16 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 [this message]
2008-12-18 3:16 ` Jeff King
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