From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 07:18:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Strangely hosed git install
Message-ID: <7vprdthezg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90905280008h5510d03aj5f6e5728ca075027@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> My main laptop (and part-time dev box) has a partially hosed git
> installation. This is an ubuntu intrepid machine where I have been
> building git from src for a while. Perhaps there's a way to diagnose
> this before I take more drastic measures :-)
>
> So far gc, repack and stash show errors. No dataloss AFAICS (though
> the git stash errors scared me initially).
>
> gc and repack error out thus:
>
> $ git gc
> usage: git-pack-objects [{ -q | --progress | --all-progress }]
>         [--max-pack-size=N] [--local] [--incremental]
>         [--window=N] [--window-memory=N] [--depth=N]
>         [--no-reuse-delta] [--no-reuse-object] [--delta-base-offset]
>         [--threads=N] [--non-empty] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--reflog]
>         [--stdout | base-name] [--keep-unreachable] [<ref-list | <object-list]
> error: failed to run repack
> $ echo $?
> 255

"type --all git"?
"git --exec-path"?
"ls $(git --exec-path)"?