Question

For some reason whenever I do a git push it returns:

remote: TERM environment variable not set.

I’ve added

export TERM=linux

to both ~/.bash and ~/.bashrc but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. I was having similar problems with rsync last week but ended up giving up.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It looks like, as the message implies, something on the remote system is complaining about $TERM not being set, so setting it locally wouldn’t do any good. Normally git push shouldn’t depend on $TERM, either on the local system or on the remote server.

My best guess is that there’s a hook somewhere that invokes a command that depends on $TERM. It shouldn’t do that. Take a look at the configuration of the server to which you’re pushing, or talk to someone who can.

(Incidentally, the string “environment variable not set” doesn’t appear anywhere in the git sources.)