Fritz Anderson <fritza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I get the error "fatal: index-pack failed" when I attempt to clone a > remote bare repository. The repository works well on other machines, > including the repository's own. > > The repository lives on a version of Mac OS X I'm not allowed to talk > about (I repeat: It works well for working copies on other machines, > and on its own). The client is RHEL5. Git is version 1.6.3 on both > machines, and was built from the tarball. Looking at the output of the trace, I do not think that you have to worry about people asking for a copy of your repository in order to diagnose this issue, as I suspect that even a much smaller toy repository will fail for you in the same way. > Here's the debug transcript: > =========== > $ sudo GIT_TRACE=1 git clone myusername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/Users/ > myusername/scientia/scientia.git I have heard that pseudo resets the PATH so you are invoking "git" from one of those standard system PATH, perhaps /usr/bin. > trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'myusername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/Users/ > myusername/scientia/scientia.git' > Initialized empty Git repository in /srv/scientia/.git/ > trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'myusername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' 'git-upload- > pack '\''/Users/myusername/scientia/scientia.git'\''' > Password: > trace: run_command: 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '-- > keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com' > trace: exec: 'git' 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '-- > keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com' > trace: exec failed: No such file or directory > trace: exec 'index-pack' failed: No such file or directory This is saying that "git" on the local side (the one you are running "clone" on) couldn't find its "index-pack" subcommand. Why? I think this is an issue with your RHEL5 box, not the MacOS box. A quick check that might be useful is to type: $ git index-pack $ sudo git index-pack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html