Re: Strangely hosed git install

Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 28.05.2009 11:34:

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Yes, but your shell seems to find git-diff somewhere, so what about:

type --all git-diff
echo $PATH

$ type --all git-diff
bash: type: git-diff: not found
$ echo $PATH
/home/martin/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

there is _no other_ git-diff. It's bash magic. See
http://popey.com/command_not_found

This is insane. Don't they even distinguish between an interactive shell
and a non-interactive one?

Note that all the key commands work. I clone, diff, commit, push,
merge daily on this machine.

quoted

OTOH: The git-pack-objects usage line indicates that you clearly have
older plumbing lying around. I suspect there are at least 2 issues on
that box.

Might be. Maybe ~/bin got cleaned up but not libexec? Or the bisecting
back-and-forth left stray bits in ~/bin?

Well, I would say go "find / git-diff-index", or simply nuke anything
git you find and do a clean install... "find"ing the left over bits
would help making sure that git's own search path is OK.

Michael