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Re: What am I doing wrong?

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PGPaul Gardiner <paul@laser-point.co.uk>
Date
May 16, 2008, 13:28 UTC
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<482D8BEB.6070706@laser-point.co.uk>
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<g0jvig$1dn$1@ger.gmane.org>
Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 14:32:
>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
>>>> I create the initial repository with
>>>>
>>>>      git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
>>>>
>>>> That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
>>>> "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
>>>> "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
>>>>
>>>> P.
>>> Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
>>> Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?
>>
>> Yes, a bare repository.
> 
> Then, maybe the full list of command lines (including cd and git-fetch) 
> would be helpful in order to track this down.

Ok, sorry, thought it was probable something really obvious. Here's the sequence (using git version 1.5.4).

$ git-clone /big/git/paul.git/ epage Initialized empty Git repository in /home/paul/epage/.git/ 719749 bolcks $ cd epage $ git-fetch fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 16, 2008
  7. Michael J GruberMay 16, 2008
  8. Paul GardinerMay 16, 2008
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