Re: Git - index-pack missing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2008, 03:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr646i37v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <54F47863-AF55-4FB7-8A43-A4253E1F782C@michaelbutros.com>

Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com> writes:

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> I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting
> account that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for
> some reason there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that
> that one particular command would not be installed, but for some
> reason that seems to be the case.

You may want to study output from "git help --all" to see if there is anything *else* that is missing. You did not say which version of git you use, and how it was built and installed with which non-standard options and in what way, so it is hard to guess what is going on.

Perhaps:

	$ cd ~root
        $ grep 'rm .*index-pack' .history .bash_history

could help locating the cause of breakage, but there are other ways to break your installation, so...

> Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

Not me.