Greetings all,
First of all, thanks for taking the time to read this and help out.
The problem:
I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting
account that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for
some reason there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that
that one particular command would not be installed, but for some
reason that seems to be the case.
Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to
completely scrap Git and try again?
Thanks,
Michael Boutros
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:40:40PM -0500, Michael Boutros wrote:
I'm trying to clone a repository for the first time on a hosting account
that just got setup with Git. However, the problem is that for some reason
there is no git-index-pack. I cannot find any reason that that one
particular command would not be installed, but for some reason that seems
to be the case.
How did you install git? From a binary package, from a tarball, from a
clone? If built, how did you build it? Any config.mak options, did you
use ./configure, etc? What version of git is it?
Is it possible for you to strace the clone process to see where it is
trying to find index-pack? Something like:
strace -f -e execve git clone
should do it.
Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is my only option to
completely scrap Git and try again?
That might work, but if this is a bug in the build or installation
system, it will be nice to track it down before you scrap the current
setup.
-Peff