Re: Problem with git shell on mac

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2011, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikuYHY9a+PWp63fP_+Up1YaW5gTH2LiQq7kQV1V@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <60BD7CF3-7781-4BEC-9545-8B653F62F32E@sis.si>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Luka Kac <luka.kac@sis.si> wrote:

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> Hi guys.
>
> I have a problem with git on a Mac os server.
> a program is trying to run git shell with this command :
>
> git shell -c git-upload-pack '/path/to/repo.git'
>
> the process dies on an assert in exec_cmd.c :
>
> Assertion failed: (argv0_path), function system_path, file exec_cmd.c, line 27.
> error: git-shell died of signal 6
>
>
> what could be wrong ? is the argv0_path path to the git-upload-pack executable ? I'm pretty sure that it is in path because ssh git@server \echo $PATH contains the path to git.
>
> What else should I do ?

Your binary appears to have been compiled with RUNTIME_PREFIX set. This is (AFAIK) only enabled by default under Cygwin/MinGW. In any case, I believe it requires that you invoke git using an absolute path.

Try /path/to/git shell  ...

j.