git-upload-pack command not found when cloning remote Git repo

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I have been using git to keep two copies of my project in sync  one is my local box  the other the test server  This is an issue which occurs when I log onto our remote development server using ssh   git clone me me mydevbox com  home chris myproject Initialized empty Git repository in  tmp myproject  git  Password  bash  git-upload-pack  command not found fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly fetch-pack from  me me mydevbox com  home chris myproject  failed     the file-names have been changed to protect the guilty         Both boxes run Solaris 10 AMD  I have done some digging   if I add --upload-pack   which git-upload-pack  the command works   and proves that  PATH contains the path to  git-upload-pack  as per the RTFM solution   but this is really annoying  plus  git push  doesn t work  because I don t think there is a --unpack  option     Incidentally  all the git commands work fine from my local box  it is the same version of the software  1 5 4 2   installed on the same NFS mount at  usr local bin     Can anybody help

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For bash  it needs to be put into  bashrc not  bash profile   bash profile is also only for login shells

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Matt s solution didn t work for me on OS X  but Paul s did   The short version from Paul s link is   Created  usr local bin ssh session with the following text      bin bash export SSH SESSION 1 if   -z   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND      then     export SSH LOGIN 1     exec login -fp   USER  else     export SSH LOGIN        -r  etc profile    amp  amp  source  etc profile       -r    profile    amp  amp  source    profile     eval exec   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND  fi   Execute      chmod  x  usr local bin ssh session   Add the following to  etc sshd config      ForceCommand  usr local bin ssh session

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Mac OS X and some other Unixes at least have the user path compiled into sshd for security reasons so those of us that install git as  usr local git  bin lib      can run into trouble as the git executables are not in the precompiled path  To override this I prefer to edit my  etc sshd config changing    PermitUserEnvironment no   to  PermitUserEnvironment yes   and then create    ssh environment files as needed  My git users have the following in their    ssh environment file   PATH  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local git bin   Note variable expansion does not occur when the    ssh environment file is read so   PATH  PATH  usr local git bin   will not work

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Building on Brian s answer  the upload-pack path can be set permanently by running the following commands after cloning  which eliminates the need for --upload-pack on subsequent pull fetch requests   Similarly  setting receive-pack eliminates the need for --receive-pack on push requests   git config remote origin uploadpack  path to git-upload-pack git config remote origin receivepack  path to git-receive-pack   These two commands are equivalent to adding the following lines to a repo s  git config    remote  origin       uploadpack    path to git-upload-pack     receivepack    path to git-receive-pack   Frequent users of clone -u may be interested in the following aliases   myclone should be self-explanatory   myfetch mypull mypush can be used on repos whose config hasn t been modified as described above by replacing git push with git mypush  and so on    alias      myclone   clone --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     myfetch   fetch --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     mypull    pull --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     mypush    push --receive-pack  path to git-receive-pack

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You must add the  export PATH  opt git bin  PATH   before this line in the  bashrc     If not running interactively  don t do anything   -z   PS1     amp  amp  return   Otherwise all export statements will not be executed  see here

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Matt s solution didn t work for me on OS X  but Paul s did   The short version from Paul s link is   Created  usr local bin ssh session with the following text      bin bash export SSH SESSION 1 if   -z   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND      then     export SSH LOGIN 1     exec login -fp   USER  else     export SSH LOGIN        -r  etc profile    amp  amp  source  etc profile       -r    profile    amp  amp  source    profile     eval exec   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND  fi   Execute      chmod  x  usr local bin ssh session   Add the following to  etc sshd config      ForceCommand  usr local bin ssh session

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Mac OS X and some other Unixes at least have the user path compiled into sshd for security reasons so those of us that install git as  usr local git  bin lib      can run into trouble as the git executables are not in the precompiled path  To override this I prefer to edit my  etc sshd config changing    PermitUserEnvironment no   to  PermitUserEnvironment yes   and then create    ssh environment files as needed  My git users have the following in their    ssh environment file   PATH  usr bin  bin  usr sbin  sbin  usr local git bin   Note variable expansion does not occur when the    ssh environment file is read so   PATH  PATH  usr local git bin   will not work

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Make sure git-upload-pack is on the path from a non-login shell   On my machine it s in  usr bin    To see what your path looks like on the remote machine from a non-login shell  try this   ssh you remotemachine echo   PATH    That works in Bash  Zsh  and tcsh  and probably other shells too    If the path it gives back doesn t include the directory that has git-upload-pack  you need to fix it by setting it in  bashrc  for Bash    zshenv  for Zsh    cshrc  for tcsh  or equivalent for your shell   You will need to make this change on the remote machine   If you re not sure which path you need to add to your remote PATH  you can find it with this command  you need to run this on the remote machine    which git-upload-pack  On my machine that prints  usr bin git-upload-pack  So in this case   usr bin is the path you need to make sure is in your remote non-login shell PATH

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Add the location of your git-upload-pack to the remote git user s  bashrc file

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I got these errors with the MsysGit version   After following all advice I could find here and elsewhere  I ended up       installing the Cygwin version of Git   on the server  Win XP with Cygwin SSHD   this finally fixed it    I still use the MsysGit version client side        in fact  its the only way it works   for me  since I get POSIX errors with   the Cygwin Git pull from that same   sshd server   I suspect some work is still needed this side of Git use     ssh ease of pull push in Windows

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I found and used  successfully  this fix     Fix it with symlinks in  usr bin   cd  usr bin    sudo ln -s   path to git  bin git      Thanks to Paul Johnston

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You can also use the  -u  option to specify the path   I find this helpful on machines where my  bashrc doesn t get sourced in non-interactive sessions   For example    git clone -u  home you bin git-upload-pack you machine code

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Matt s solution didn t work for me on OS X  but Paul s did   The short version from Paul s link is   Created  usr local bin ssh session with the following text      bin bash export SSH SESSION 1 if   -z   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND      then     export SSH LOGIN 1     exec login -fp   USER  else     export SSH LOGIN        -r  etc profile    amp  amp  source  etc profile       -r    profile    amp  amp  source    profile     eval exec   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND  fi   Execute      chmod  x  usr local bin ssh session   Add the following to  etc sshd config      ForceCommand  usr local bin ssh session

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Matt s solution didn t work for me on OS X  but Paul s did   The short version from Paul s link is   Created  usr local bin ssh session with the following text      bin bash export SSH SESSION 1 if   -z   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND      then     export SSH LOGIN 1     exec login -fp   USER  else     export SSH LOGIN        -r  etc profile    amp  amp  source  etc profile       -r    profile    amp  amp  source    profile     eval exec   SSH ORIGINAL COMMAND  fi   Execute      chmod  x  usr local bin ssh session   Add the following to  etc sshd config      ForceCommand  usr local bin ssh session

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For bash  it needs to be put into  bashrc not  bash profile   bash profile is also only for login shells

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Make sure git-upload-pack is on the path from a non-login shell   On my machine it s in  usr bin    To see what your path looks like on the remote machine from a non-login shell  try this   ssh you remotemachine echo   PATH    That works in Bash  Zsh  and tcsh  and probably other shells too    If the path it gives back doesn t include the directory that has git-upload-pack  you need to fix it by setting it in  bashrc  for Bash    zshenv  for Zsh    cshrc  for tcsh  or equivalent for your shell   You will need to make this change on the remote machine   If you re not sure which path you need to add to your remote PATH  you can find it with this command  you need to run this on the remote machine    which git-upload-pack  On my machine that prints  usr bin git-upload-pack  So in this case   usr bin is the path you need to make sure is in your remote non-login shell PATH

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I got these errors with the MsysGit version   After following all advice I could find here and elsewhere  I ended up       installing the Cygwin version of Git   on the server  Win XP with Cygwin SSHD   this finally fixed it    I still use the MsysGit version client side        in fact  its the only way it works   for me  since I get POSIX errors with   the Cygwin Git pull from that same   sshd server   I suspect some work is still needed this side of Git use     ssh ease of pull push in Windows

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Building on Brian s answer  the upload-pack path can be set permanently by running the following commands after cloning  which eliminates the need for --upload-pack on subsequent pull fetch requests   Similarly  setting receive-pack eliminates the need for --receive-pack on push requests   git config remote origin uploadpack  path to git-upload-pack git config remote origin receivepack  path to git-receive-pack   These two commands are equivalent to adding the following lines to a repo s  git config    remote  origin       uploadpack    path to git-upload-pack     receivepack    path to git-receive-pack   Frequent users of clone -u may be interested in the following aliases   myclone should be self-explanatory   myfetch mypull mypush can be used on repos whose config hasn t been modified as described above by replacing git push with git mypush  and so on    alias      myclone   clone --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     myfetch   fetch --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     mypull    pull --upload-pack  path to git-upload-pack     mypush    push --receive-pack  path to git-receive-pack

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Make sure git-upload-pack is on the path from a non-login shell   On my machine it s in  usr bin    To see what your path looks like on the remote machine from a non-login shell  try this   ssh you remotemachine echo   PATH    That works in Bash  Zsh  and tcsh  and probably other shells too    If the path it gives back doesn t include the directory that has git-upload-pack  you need to fix it by setting it in  bashrc  for Bash    zshenv  for Zsh    cshrc  for tcsh  or equivalent for your shell   You will need to make this change on the remote machine   If you re not sure which path you need to add to your remote PATH  you can find it with this command  you need to run this on the remote machine    which git-upload-pack  On my machine that prints  usr bin git-upload-pack  So in this case   usr bin is the path you need to make sure is in your remote non-login shell PATH

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For zsh you need to put it in this file     zshenv  For example  on OS X using the git-core package from MacPorts     echo  export PATH  opt local sbin  opt local bin  PATH       zshenv

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For zsh you need to put it in this file     zshenv  For example  on OS X using the git-core package from MacPorts     echo  export PATH  opt local sbin  opt local bin  PATH       zshenv

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Make sure git-upload-pack is on the path from a non-login shell   On my machine it s in  usr bin    To see what your path looks like on the remote machine from a non-login shell  try this   ssh you remotemachine echo   PATH    That works in Bash  Zsh  and tcsh  and probably other shells too    If the path it gives back doesn t include the directory that has git-upload-pack  you need to fix it by setting it in  bashrc  for Bash    zshenv  for Zsh    cshrc  for tcsh  or equivalent for your shell   You will need to make this change on the remote machine   If you re not sure which path you need to add to your remote PATH  you can find it with this command  you need to run this on the remote machine    which git-upload-pack  On my machine that prints  usr bin git-upload-pack  So in this case   usr bin is the path you need to make sure is in your remote non-login shell PATH

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My case is on Win 10 with GIT bash and I don t have a GIT under standard location  Instead I have git under  app local bin  I used the commands provided by  Garrett but need to change the path to start with double     git config remote origin uploadpack   path to git-upload-pack git config remote origin receivepack   path to git-receive-pack   Otherwise the GIT will add your Windows GIT path in front

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I found and used  successfully  this fix     Fix it with symlinks in  usr bin   cd  usr bin    sudo ln -s   path to git  bin git      Thanks to Paul Johnston

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My case is on Win 10 with GIT bash and I don t have a GIT under standard location  Instead I have git under  app local bin  I used the commands provided by  Garrett but need to change the path to start with double     git config remote origin uploadpack   path to git-upload-pack git config remote origin receivepack   path to git-receive-pack   Otherwise the GIT will add your Windows GIT path in front

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You can also use the  -u  option to specify the path   I find this helpful on machines where my  bashrc doesn t get sourced in non-interactive sessions   For example    git clone -u  home you bin git-upload-pack you machine code

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Like Johan pointed out many times its  bashrc that s needed   ln -s  bash profile  bashrc

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I have been having issues connecting to a Gitolite repo using SSH from Windows and it turned out that my problem was PLINK   It kept asking me for a password  but the ssh gitolite  host  would return the repo list fine   Check your environment variable  GIT SSH   If it is set to Plink  then try it without any value   set GIT SSH    and see if that works

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It may be as simple as installing git on the remote host  like it was in my case    sudo apt-get install git   Or equivalent for other package management systems

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Like Johan pointed out many times its  bashrc that s needed   ln -s  bash profile  bashrc

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You must add the  export PATH  opt git bin  PATH   before this line in the  bashrc     If not running interactively  don t do anything   -z   PS1     amp  amp  return   Otherwise all export statements will not be executed  see here

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It may be as simple as installing git on the remote host  like it was in my case    sudo apt-get install git   Or equivalent for other package management systems

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I have been having issues connecting to a Gitolite repo using SSH from Windows and it turned out that my problem was PLINK   It kept asking me for a password  but the ssh gitolite  host  would return the repo list fine   Check your environment variable  GIT SSH   If it is set to Plink  then try it without any value   set GIT SSH    and see if that works

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Add the location of your git-upload-pack to the remote git user s  bashrc file

[git] git-upload-pack: command not found, when cloning remote Git repo

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