{"thread":{"id":"16775","subject":"Git - index-pack missing","startedAt":"2008-12-17T23:40:40Z","lastAt":"2008-12-18T03:16:39Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Michael Boutros","Junio C Hamano","Jeff King"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"98203","messageId":"54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com","threadId":"16775","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git - index-pack missing","fromName":"Michael Boutros","fromEmail":"me@michaelboutros.com","sentAt":"2008-12-17T23:40:40Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-17T23:40:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"me@michaelboutros.com","avatar":null},"body":"Greetings all,\n\nFirst of all, thanks for taking the time to read this and help out.  \nThe problem:\n\nI'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting  \naccount that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for  \nsome reason there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that  \nthat one particular command would not be installed, but for some  \nreason that seems to be the case.\n\nHas anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to  \ncompletely scrap Git and try again?\n\nThanks,\nMichael Boutros\n"},{"id":"98215","messageId":"7vr646i37v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16775","inReplyTo":"54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com","subject":"Re: Git - index-pack missing","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-12-18T03:15:00Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-18T03:15:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com> writes:\n\n> I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting\n> account that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for\n> some reason there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that\n> that one particular command would not be installed, but for some\n> reason that seems to be the case.\n\nYou may want to study output from \"git help --all\" to see if there is\nanything *else* that is missing.  You did not say which version of git you\nuse, and how it was built and installed with which non-standard options\nand in what way, so it is hard to guess what is going on.\n\nPerhaps:\n\n\t$ cd ~root\n        $ grep 'rm .*index-pack' .history .bash_history\n\ncould help locating the cause of breakage, but there are other ways to\nbreak your installation, so...\n\n> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?\n\nNot me.\n"},{"id":"98217","messageId":"20081218031639.GA20749@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"16775","inReplyTo":"54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com","subject":"Re: Git - index-pack missing","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2008-12-18T03:16:39Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-18T03:16:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Michael Boutros wrote:\n\n> I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting account \n> that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for some reason \n> there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that that one \n> particular command would not be installed, but for some reason that seems \n> to be the case.\n\nHow did you install git? From a binary package, from a tarball, from a\nclone? If built, how did you build it? Any config.mak options, did you\nuse ./configure, etc? What version of git is it?\n\nIs it possible for you to strace the clone process to see where it is\ntrying to find index-pack? Something like:\n\n  strace -f -e execve git clone\n\nshould do it.\n\n> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to  \n> completely scrap Git and try again?\n\nThat might work, but if this is a bug in the build or installation\nsystem, it will be nice to track it down before you scrap the current\nsetup.\n\n-Peff\n"}]}