From: Paul Gardiner Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 13:28:11 GMT Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong? Message-ID: <482D8BEB.6070706@laser-point.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Michael J Gruber wrote: > 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 //.git/ >>>> >>>> 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 // 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 P.