Re: ssh git-pull fails

From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2009, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <AE04C818-3B23-49BC-9EF2-2C9B8BAB3B28@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <765581.84306.qm@web38806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:37 AM, kenet3@yahoo.com wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> Can anybody please help me with this problem?
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> I have trouble pulling from an external Git repository through ssh.
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> Here is the command I use:
> $ git-pull ssh://myusername@external.host:/path/to/git/dir
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> This error comes up:
> ssh: external.host:: Name or service not known
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

try: $ git pull ssh://myusername@external.host/path/to/git/dir (note the lack of colon after the hostname)

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> I've set core.sharedRepository to true in another.host's Git  
> repository.
> Also, umask is set to 27.
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> If I can manually ssh to external.host with no problem.
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> Please bear with me as I'm new with this.

tom