Re: Strangely hosed git install

Martin Langhoff [off-list ref] writes:

My main laptop (and part-time dev box) has a partially hosed git
installation. This is an ubuntu intrepid machine where I have been
building git from src for a while. Perhaps there's a way to diagnose
this before I take more drastic measures :-)

So far gc, repack and stash show errors. No dataloss AFAICS (though
the git stash errors scared me initially).

gc and repack error out thus:

$ git gc
usage: git-pack-objects [{ -q | --progress | --all-progress }]
        [--max-pack-size=N] [--local] [--incremental]
        [--window=N] [--window-memory=N] [--depth=N]
        [--no-reuse-delta] [--no-reuse-object] [--delta-base-offset]
        [--threads=N] [--non-empty] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--reflog]
        [--stdout | base-name] [--keep-unreachable] [<ref-list | <object-list]
error: failed to run repack
$ echo $?
255

"type --all git"?
"git --exec-path"?
"ls $(git --exec-path)"?