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From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 13:43:52 +0200
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Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
> I create the initial repository with
> 
>      git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
> 
> That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
> "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
> "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
> 
> P.

Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?

Michael