From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:12:43 GMT
Subject: Re: clone fails: Could not get the current working directory
Message-ID: <81b0412b0809230712u4a1cbe0fo69f558cbe9a26aae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48D8EDDA.3050804@cs.tamu.edu>

2008/9/23 John Freeman <jfreeman@cs.tamu.edu>:
> 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)