git-clone: path or ssh problem with git-upload-pack in 1.6.0?

I'm having trouble with git-clone and I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong or something wrong with git. Probably the former, hopefully someone can set me straight.

I'm an admittedly novice git user. I'm trying to clone a repository over ssh. The host machine 'imac' is my mac osx 10.4 with git 1.6.0 installed from a macports package. This installs into /opt/local/bin. I also cloned git from HEAD and 'make; make install'ed into ~/bin, this is the version shown below. Either way, these are nonstandard/non-system-wide installation locations, and it requires that my shell PATH reflect this, obviously.

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# About my installation imac:~ paul$ which git /Users/paul/bin/git

imac:~ paul$ git --version git version 1.6.0.1.285.g1070

imac:~ paul$ ls /opt/local/bin/git* /opt/local/bin/git /opt/local/bin/git-upload-archive /opt/local/bin/gitk /opt/local/bin/git-receive-pack /opt/local/bin/git-upload-pack

imac:~ paul$ ls ~/bin/git* /Users/paul/bin/git /Users/paul/bin/git-shell /Users/paul/bin/git-upload-pack /Users/paul/bin/git-receive-pack /Users/paul/bin/git-upload-archive

# Make a simple reposirtory /tmp/test/.git
imac:~ paul$ cd /tmp
imac:/tmp paul$ mkdir test; cd test; echo 'Hello World' > README; git
init; git add README; git commit -a -m'Initial import'; cd ..
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/test/.git/
Created initial commit 49c10e6: Initial import
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README

# OK, this fails expectedly imac:/tmp paul$ cd ~ imac:~ paul$ git clone ssh://localhost/tmp/test/.git Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/paul/test/.git/ Password: bash: line 1: git-upload-pack: command not found fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

# This has been killing me... Have tried numerous variants of the same with similar results... imac:~ paul$ git clone --upload-pack /opt/local/bin/git-upload-pack ssh://localhost/tmp/test/.git Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/paul/test/.git/ Password: remote: fatal: exec pack-objects failed. error: git-upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error. fatal: git-upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side. remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side. fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed

# Fix it with symlinks in /usr/bin imac:~ paul$ cd /usr/bin/ imac:/usr/bin paul$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/git* . imac:/usr/bin paul$ ls -al git* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Sep 9 19:18 git -> /opt/local/bin/git lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31 Sep 9 19:18 git-receive-pack -> /opt/local/bin/git-receive-pack lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 Sep 9 19:18 git-upload-archive -> /opt/local/bin/git-upload-archive lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30 Sep 9 19:18 git-upload-pack -> /opt/local/bin/git-upload-pack lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Sep 9 19:18 gitk -> /opt/local/bin/gitk

# And now git-clone works as expected... imac:/usr/bin paul$ cd imac:~ paul$ git clone ssh://localhost/tmp/test/.git Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/paul/test/.git/ Password: remote: Counting objects: 3, done. remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.

imac:~ paul$ find test/
test/
test//.git
  { file listing removed for brevity... }
test//README

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OK, great, now it works. I suspect I'm not using the --upload-pack option correctly or my ssh installation is suboptimal, but as I could find no existing documentation on the subject, I am posting this message. Any thoughts?

Paul Johnston