Git push failure in the case of SSH to localhost

From: Ciprian Dorin, Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2009, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID: <8e04b5820902110824u1ab99cc1r4df6349b20d62f84@mail.gmail.com>

    Hello all!

    I've encountered the following error situations: git fails to push
a branch over ssh to localhost, even with file: protocol it has the
same behaviour... Please see the transcript... (Git version is
1.6.1.1) I don't think I'm doing something wrong, because this works
just fine with a real remote host...

    Thanks,
    Ciprian Craciun.

    P.S.: I'm using a slightly modified version of Git, but this patch
affects only the PATH-like search mechanism for git commands.

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    0  git version
git version 1.6.1.1.dirty

    1  cd /tmp
    2  mkdir r1
    3  cd r1
    4  git init
    5  cd ..
    6  mkdir r2
    7  cd r2
    8  git init --bare
    9  cd ..
   10  cd r1
   11  echo a>a
   12  git add .
   13  git commit -m '--'

   14  git push ssh://localhost/tmp/r2 master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 197 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
error: unpack should have generated
ea8c5601f49a4bdeea03db3adb909d590ea730d3, but I can't find it!
To ssh://localhost/tmp/r2
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (bad pack)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://localhost/tmp/r2'

   15  git push file:///tmp/r2 master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 197 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
error: unpack should have generated
ea8c5601f49a4bdeea03db3adb909d590ea730d3, but I can't find it!
To file:///tmp/r2
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (bad pack)
error: failed to push some refs to 'file:///tmp/r2'

    16 git push ssh://hephaistos.tartarus./tmp/r2 master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 197 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://dom1.hephaistos.tartarus./tmp/r2
 * [new branch]      master -> master