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

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 23, 2008, 14:12 UTC
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2008/9/23 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:
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> Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>> Do these work:
>>  $ ssh john@remote.system.edu ls -R /home/bob/path/to/repo
>>  $ ssh john@remote.system.edu 'cd /home/bob/path/to/repo && pwd'
>>
>
> Yes, they do.  I wish the mailing list did better threading; please see my
> other posts if you happened to miss them:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/96442
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/96505
>

Saw them. .bashrc (/etc/bashrc too) is not used for non-interactive sessions, like yours (of course, you can source them from .profile/.bash_login/.bash_profile).

Have you tried the commands exactly? (Even more interesting would be to try a simple getpwd program which prints errno)

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