Re: Git - index-pack missing

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