Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:33:30 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.0-rc2 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:00:25 -0700 > > > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes: > > > > > Quick question - where does one go to find out the cool new features > > > that make it 1.6 and should convince me to upgrade and try this whicked > > > new release? > > > > Draft release notes for 1.6.0 was posted to the list some time ago > > already, but as always: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt > > Just FYI, I have some issue with 1.6.x git when pulling remotely from > it on sparc64. I suspect it is the usual unaligned access issue and I > will debug it further soon.
As a followup this turned out to be the classic "PATH when doing GIT over SSH" problem.
I have to say this is very unfun to debug, and even less fun to "fix" even once you know this is the problem. And what's more I know this is the second time I've had to spend a night debugging this very problem.
I ended up having to make a ~/.ssh/environment file and then restart my SSH server with "PermitUserEnvironment yes" added to sshd_config.
But I can't believe this is what I have to do just to pull from a machine where I have GIT only installed in my home directory. What if I were just a normal user and couldn't change the SSHD config? What hoops would I need to jump through to get my PATH setup correctly? :)
It doesn't even work to put ~/bin into the PATH listed in the system wide /etc/environment, because that does not do tilde expansion, SSHD just takes it as-is.
Wouldn't it make sense to put the bindir into PATH when we try to do execv_git_cmd()? The code has already put the gitexecdir into the PATH at this point.
Thanks!
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