Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 14:32:
>>>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>>> Paul Gardiner venit, vidit, dixit 16.05.2008 13:25:
>>>>>> I create the initial repository with
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      git-clone /<full-path>/<name>.git/ <folder>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That works fine, but then I can't fetch. git-fetch gives the error
>>>>>> "fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive"
>>>>>> "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.
>>>>> Are you trying to clone a bare repository?
>>>>> Or is your repo maybe at /<full-path>/<name> with a .git subdir?
>>>> Yes, a bare repository.
>>> Then, maybe the full list of command lines (including cd and git-fetch)
>>> would be helpful in order to track this down.
>> Ok, sorry, thought it was probable something really obvious. Here's the
>> sequence (using git version 1.5.4).
>>
>> $ git-clone /big/git/paul.git/ epage
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/paul/epage/.git/
>> 719749 bolcks
> 
> Something tells me that this is not a copy/paste ;-)

The "big" bit you mean? :-) It just happened to be the name
chosen for the mount of a large disc when added to the
server.

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>> $ cd epage
>> $ git-fetch
>> fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> Is there a "[remote "origin"]" section in .git/config?  What Git version 
> is this, anyway?

No, not in /home/paul/epage/.git/config. There's just a [core] section. 
I guess that's the problem. I thought git-clone set that up automatically.

It's v1.5.4

P.
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