Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory

["Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2008/9/21 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:
> - The repository is bare, under Bob's home directory on a remote Sun system.
> - Bob has set the group permissions for the repo directory to repogroup.
> - I have an account on the remote system that is in repogroup.
>
> I am trying to clone the repo on my home machine, using
>
>> git clone ssh://john@remote.system.edu/home/bob/path/to/repo
>
> It fails with
>
> remote: fatal: Could not get the current working directory

Do these work:

  $ ssh john@remote.system.edu ls -R /home/bob/path/to/repo
  $ ssh john@remote.system.edu 'cd /home/bob/path/to/repo && pwd'

?