From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:25:22 GMT Subject: Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090831164146.GA23245@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > 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