Home/ Questions/Q 8053973
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-05T08:01:35+00:00

I switched servers, so I simply rsynced the remote git repository to which I

  • 0

I switched servers, so I simply rsynced the remote git repository to which I was pushing and pulling changes from over to new server. Now I tried to fetch from it and am getting error:

ssh://user@domain.com:1234/home/user/gitrepos/project.git: 
cannot execute: git-upload-pack '/home/user/gitrepos/project.git'

What could be causing this problem? How can I troubleshoot?

P.S. domain and ports, along with file repo dir location are all correct.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    When you’re using git on a remote server, the remote peer also needs git installed. (It’s a bit like rsync — having software on the remote endpoint allows for computing details on the remote peer to avoid needless network traffic.)

    So, be sure that a fully-functional git is installed on the remote peer, the commands are located on the PATH when you log in via ssh normally as georgebrock points out, and your user account has privileges to execute the commands (in case your login shell is confined with a mandatory access control tool such as AppArmor, SELinux, TOMOYO, or SMACK).

    • 0