Re: What am I doing wrong?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 16, 2008, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805161439100.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <482D8BEB.6070706@laser-point.co.uk>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:

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> Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 14:32:
> > > Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > > > Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
> > > > > I create the initial repository with
> > > > >
> > > > >      git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
> > > > >
> > > > > That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
> > > > > "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
> > > > > "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
> > > > >
> > > > > P.
> > > > Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
> > > > Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?
> > >
> > > Yes, a bare repository.
> > 
> > Then, maybe the full list of command lines (including cd and git-fetch)
> > would be helpful in order to track this down.
> 
> Ok, sorry, thought it was probable something really obvious. Here's the
> sequence (using git version 1.5.4).
> 
> $ git-clone /big/git/paul.git/ epage
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/paul/epage/.git/
> 719749 bolcks

Something tells me that this is not a copy/paste ;-)

> $ cd epage
> $ git-fetch
> fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Is there a "[remote "origin"]" section in .git/config? What Git version is this, anyway?

Ciao, Dscho