Re: "bash: git-upload-pack: command not found" ??

From: Oliver Kullmann <o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 13:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20080306135456.GG925@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080306124710.GA10266@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:47:10PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > when using
> > 
> > Transitional> git pull ssh://user@host.xz/~/path/to/Transitional master
> > 
> > on a remote machine I get
> > 
> > Password:
> > bash: git-upload-pack: command not found
> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> Where is git-upload-pack on the server machine?

In the same directory as git, in /usr/local/bin/

>  Where do you set your
> PATH to include $(basedir git-upload-pack).

Hm, it's set "nowhere". Likely that's the problem: For a standard-user the path includes the git-directory, but not for the git-user.

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>  Does 
> 
> 	git pull --upload-pack /path/to/git-upload-pack ...
> 
> help?
>

Yes! That solves it (I won't fiddle around with the path settings, since I have also local installs etc., and that additional specification does the job).

Thanks!

Oliver

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Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Computer Science Department
Swansea University
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