Hi,

I'm pretty sure this worked before, but with git-1.5.4, when trying to
clone a repository via ssh from a machine that does not have git
installed in a standard system path, I get the following:

$ git clone -u /home/enewren/software/install/linux/git/bin/git-upload-pack
ssh://enewren@remote/var/scratch/enewren/votd
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/newren/devel/votd/.git/
remote: fatal: exec pack-objects failed.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
fetch-pack from 'ssh://enewren@remote/var/scratch/enewren/votd' failed.

I tried doing a local clone of the same repository (worked fine), a
'git fsck -full' on the relevant repository (reported no errors), and
a few other things.  After a bit of digging, I found a really ugly
hack that works around my problem.  After recompiling git on the
remote machine with the attached patch, the clone operation succeeded.


Thanks,
Elijah