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Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory

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JFJohn Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>
Date
Sep 21, 2008, 22:18 UTC
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<48D6C822.7050602@cs.tamu.edu>
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Paul Johnston wrote:
> On the server, where is git installed? I had a similar problem with
> clone when my git installation was not in a PATH known to ssh.

It is installed in a non-standard directory, /opt/csg/bin. This is part of the system-wide PATH defined in /etc/bashrc. I also added it to my ~/.bashrc before I discovered that fact. 

> Try
> creating symlinks from usr/bin (for example) to your git executables
> to see if this solves the problem.

I did create symlinks in $HOME/local/bin which is in the PATH defined in my ~/.bashrc. I do not have administrator privileges, so I cannot put symlinks in /usr/bin. I think it is finding the executable just fine, but that there is some issue with accessing the repo directory. I have tested with

 > ssh user@remote.system.edu -- "git-upload-pack"
and it works as expected.
>   Also, search the archives for
> git-upload-pack.
>

I've skimmed it, and I see nothing related to my problem. Specifying --upload-pack explicitly gives the same error.

Thank you for the response, though.  Are there any other ideas?
- John
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