Re: Git - index-pack missing

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 18, 2008, 03:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20081218031639.GA20749@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Michael Boutros wrote:

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> I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting account 
> that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for some reason 
> there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that that one 
> particular command would not be installed, but for some reason that seems 
> to be the case.

How did you install git? From a binary package, from a tarball, from a clone? If built, how did you build it? Any config.mak options, did you use ./configure, etc? What version of git is it?

Is it possible for you to strace the clone process to see where it is trying to find index-pack? Something like:

  strace -f -e execve git clone

should do it.

> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to  
> completely scrap Git and try again?

That might work, but if this is a bug in the build or installation system, it will be nice to track it down before you scrap the current setup.

-Peff