# Problems cloning on Mac OS

2 messages from 2008-05-15 to 2008-05-15. Participants: Peter Karlsson, Kevin Ballard.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13527

## Peter Karlsson, 2008-05-15 05:22

Subject: Problems cloning on Mac OS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805150618570.23917@ds9.cixit.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0805150618570.23917%40ds9.cixit.se

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Hi!

I am having problems cloning with git running on Mac OS X (installed
from macports). I am cloning from a Linux box:

$ git clone ssh://peter@server/path localpath
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/peter/tmp/localpath/.git/
percent_expand: NULL replacement
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fetch-pack from 'ssh://server/path' failed.

$ git --version
git version 1.5.5.1


Any ideas what is wrong? I successfully cloned from that repository to
a Windows (msysgit) install yesterday, over ssh.

Git on the Linux box I'm cloning from:
$ git --version
git version 1.5.4.2

(installed from Debian package version 1:1.5.4.2-1~bpo40+2)

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

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## Kevin Ballard, 2008-05-15 05:39

Subject: Re: Problems cloning on Mac OS
Message-ID: <D5F3E168-4A47-4FFA-8EC5-20D5202E009E@sb.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/D5F3E168-4A47-4FFA-8EC5-20D5202E009E%40sb.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805150618570.23917@ds9.cixit.se>

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On May 15, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am having problems cloning with git running on Mac OS X (installed
> from macports). I am cloning from a Linux box:
>
> $ git clone ssh://peter@server/path localpath
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/peter/tmp/localpath/.git/
> percent_expand: NULL replacement
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fetch-pack from 'ssh://server/path' failed.
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.5.1
>
>
> Any ideas what is wrong? I successfully cloned from that repository to
> a Windows (msysgit) install yesterday, over ssh.
>
> Git on the Linux box I'm cloning from:
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.4.2
>
> (installed from Debian package version 1:1.5.4.2-1~bpo40+2)

Read http://github.com/guides/percent_expand-null-replacement-bug

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin@sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com

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