Git push error git -receive-pack

Question

I have two git repositories on different networks. I talked between them without problems, but for some reason today, when I do "git push", I get the following error:

---------------------------------------------- bash: git-receive-pack: command not found fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly ---------------------------------------------- 

I googled and made sure that "/ usr / local / bin" is in my "$ PATH". Here is the output of the bin directory of my git:

 [ pradeep@laptop ]$ls -l /usr/local/git/bin/ total 16760 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4329416 Mar 26 20:06 git* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14852 Mar 26 20:06 git-credential-osxkeychain* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 162402 Mar 26 20:06 git-cvsserver* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Apr 3 11:02 git-receive-pack@ -> git -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1830248 Mar 26 20:06 git-shell* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Apr 3 11:02 git-upload-archive@ -> git -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1893064 Mar 26 20:06 git-upload-pack* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 333121 Mar 26 20:06 gitk* 

Any ideas what could be wrong?

thanks

-------------- Edit ------------------- I have the following line in the ".bashrc" of my remote system:

 export PATH=$LOCAL/git-1.8/bin/:$PATH 

This is the output on the remote computer:

 $ls $LOCAL/git-1.8/bin git git-cvsserver gitk git-receive-pack git-shell git-upload-archive git-upload-pack 

And this is the result when I do "ssh user @remote env" from my machine to the remote machine:

 [ pradeep@laptop ~]$ssh [e-mail] env SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=153.133.52.171 52379 22 USER=k00603 MAIL=/var/mail/k00603 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/openssh/bin PWD=/volume2/home/hp120242/k00603 SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/hp120242/k00603 LOGNAME=k00603 SSH_CONNECTION=153.133.52.171 52379 10.7.160.4 22 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 _=/bin/env 

There is no git path in bash.

Edit: The following is the ".bash_profile" in the home directory of my remote system:

 # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$LOCAL/git-1.8/bin export PATH 

Answer 1

When you type ssh in the field and get an invitation, you are actually doing a little process than when you execute the command. The shells have rules about what configuration will be obtained based on whether it is a login shell and / or if it is an interactive session. Try to run:

 ssh user@host env 

This will print your environment, as seen from a non-interactive login session. I assume that /usr/local/git/bin not on the path in this script. You can get around this using the --receive-pack option for git push :

 git push --receive-pack=/path/to/git-receive-pack 

/path/to/git-receive-pack - the path on the remote computer. It tells git where to find the other end when ssh'ing on the remote.

The best answer is to fix your shell configuration, but it can be difficult depending on the shell. I mainly use ZSH, and fix it by setting ~/.zshenv , which gets ZSH in a non-interactive shell. I think with bash things are less clear. You may need to change your ~/.bashrc and / or your ~/.bash_profile .

Assuming you have an installation installed on the Vanilla Linux platform at the remote end (which is probably the case), and that it starts the bash shell, the easiest solution is to modify .bashrc . Change ~/.bashrc and add:

 export PATH=/path/to/your/installed/git/bin:$PATH 

Where /path/to/your/installed/git/bin is the place where you installed git in your home directory. I tend to set local settings in ~/.local/bin , so my view would look like this:

 export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH 

Perhaps you are just:

 export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH 

You do not provide a location, so I cannot give you the correct wording.

Most systems use .bashrc even if the command is provided by ssh. After you make this change, try ssh user@host env again. You should see the location of the bin folder containing the git binary in the path variable. Then you can do something like ssh user@host git --version and see something like:

 git version 1.8.2 

If you see an error, then you probably didn’t enter the path correctly, or .bashrc does not pick up when you ssh into the machine.

.Profile example

 # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi # set PATH so it includes user private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi 

Automatic use --receive-pack

Assuming your remote is called origin , you can do this:

 git config --local remote.origin.receivepack \ /path/to/git-receive-pack/on/the/remote 

You may also need to fix the download package:

 git config --local remote.origin.uploadpack \ /path/to/git-upload-pack/on/the/remote