Re: git pull works remotely but not locally

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 27, 2010, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20100527151514.GB18590@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BFE8A99.5060906@llaisdy.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:07:05PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:

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> >It looks like there's something wrong with your installation of Git.
> >Perhaps you'd like to re-install
> The error is like this:
> 
>     $ /opt/libexec/git-core/git-pull
>     /opt/libexec/git-core/git-pull: line 11: git-sh-setup: No such
> file or directory
> 
> I'm calling git-pull from my clone of the repos, so I don't have
> git-sh-setup in my current directory.  That all seems fine: I imagine
> git-pull is not intended to be called directly.

It's not. It expects the git wrapper to have set up the PATH to have /opt/libexec/git-core in it, which would then find git-sh-setup.

What happens if you run "git pull"? If you get an error, can you try to run "GIT_TRACE=1 git pull"? Git should then print out exactly what it is trying to exec that is failing.

-Peff