From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:25:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2e24e5b90908310730u53ee27d3nd2b66c1f58202e7@mail.gmail.com> <20090831164146.GA23245@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sitaram Chamarty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 31 19:25:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MiAdT-0007mZ-OG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:25:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753402AbZHaRZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753313AbZHaRZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:25:34 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:50092 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753301AbZHaRZd (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:25:33 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7VHNK26004790 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:23:21 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1MiAd8-0002DQ-K6; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:25:22 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MiAd8-0003Fg-In; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:25:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090831164146.GA23245@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon\, 31 Aug 2009 12\:41\:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:23:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: n7VHNK26004790 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1252344202.58947@9UdxYBCmqlBgbwyQuNJk1A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:00:41PM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > >> > Maybe you have an older version of Git? >> >> Had 1.6.4, just tried with 1.6.4.2 -- the error is still there, exactly so. >> >> Anything I can do to provide more info? > > IIRC, the message you are seeing comes when the _server_ is an older > version of git. It is harmless, though. Since the client and server are the same machine: $ git clone ssh://sitaram@localhost/home/sitaram/t/a b 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). -- Matthieu