From: Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: "fatal: index-pack failed" on git-clone
Message-ID: <7A134415-D275-4638-9674-5BCC18A14BC4@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vd48b6md8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Could you try your original (non-working) command with this debug  
> patch?


(I had to apply the patch by hand; RHEL patch complained about a  
malformatted patch file.)

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$ sudo GIT_TRACE=1 git clone username@remote.example.com:/Users/ 
username/scientia/scientia.git
trace: setup_path: the $PATH was: /usr/bin:/bin
trace: setup_path: the $PATH is now: /usr/local/libexec/git-core:/usr/ 
bin:/bin
trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'username@remote.example.com:/Users/ 
username/scientia/scientia.git'
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/git-1.6.3/ 
scientia/.git/
trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'username@remote.example.com' 'git-upload- 
pack '\''/Users/username/scientia/scientia.git'\'''
Password:
trace: run_command: 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '-- 
keep=fetch-pack 32503 on scientia.uchicago.edu'
trace: exec: 'git' 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '-- 
keep=fetch-pack 32503 on scientia.uchicago.edu'
trace: exec failed: No such file or directory
trace: the $PATH was: /usr/local/libexec/git-core:/usr/bin:/bin
trace: exec 'index-pack' failed: No such file or directory
fatal: index-pack failed
remote: Counting objects: 2802, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2393/2393), done.
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As a reminder:
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$ sudo /usr/local/bin/git --exec-path
/usr/local/libexec/git-core
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	— F