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Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Aug 31, 2009, 17:25 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:00:41PM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>
>> > Maybe you have an older version of Git?
>> 
>> Had 1.6.4, just tried with 1.6.4.2 -- the error is still there, exactly so.
>> 
>> Anything I can do to provide more info?
>
> IIRC, the message you are seeing comes when the _server_ is an older
> version of git. It is harmless, though.
Since the client and server are the same machine:
    $ git clone ssh://sitaram@localhost/home/sitaram/t/a b

I'd bet Sitaram has two installations of git, and plain ssh to the machine points to the old one (like a $PATH set in ~/.login and not ~/.profile or something like that).

-- 
Matthieu
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  1. Sitaram ChamartyAug 31, 2009
  2. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  3. Sitaram ChamartyAug 31, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  5. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  7. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  8. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  10. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  11. Björn SteinbrinkAug 31, 2009
  12. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  13. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  14. Jeff KingSep 1, 2009
  15. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  16. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  17. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  18. clone: disconnect transport after fetchingJeff King, Sep 2, 2009
  19. Sverre RabbelierSep 2, 2009
  20. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  21. Sverre RabbelierSep 2, 2009
  22. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2009
  24. Jeff KingSep 4, 2009
  25. Sitaram ChamartySep 2, 2009

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