问题
I added a repo to gitolite-admin conf and pushing it successful
Now I wanted to import an exiting repository
when I invoke a git push --all git@gitserver:mybeerrepo
I get git: 'index-pack' is not a git-command. error: pack-objects died with strange error error: failed to push some refs to ...
I checked the .bashrc file for that user and the path looks okay
git gc in that repository seems to work well too
no idea what to do next now :-7
回答1:
The problem was caused by an old version of git
There seems to be a bug in the git version 1.6.x.x which had been installed on the Server where gitolite is running.
The Client was on 1.7.9.5 the server on 1.6.x.x. Even doing the push from the server did fail.
As a git gc is working well the problem seems to exist only when the index-packer is run through push ssh and gitolite and there are some specific files in the repo, maybe kind, size. To get rid of this ...
Install new git version on Suse Sles10
I installed a new version of git from source on the SLES 10 box as there are no compatible rpms for older suse releases.
cd /root
wget git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz
tar -xvpzf git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz
cd git-1.7.8.4
./configure --without-python
make
make install
create symlinks (if needed remove old git references before)
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-receive-pack
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-shell
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-upload-archive
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack`
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12646748/git-push-initial-to-gitolite-repository-fails-with-index-pack-not-a-git-command