unknown git/gitolite command: 'git upload-pack RepoName'

Question

We are using gitolite on a server and are connecting via SSH. From one day to another we get the following error:

$git pull
FATAL: unknown git/gitolite command: 'git upload-pack 'RepoName''
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Access Rights did not change. Repository exists. Server is up and running.

Git Version: git version 2.14.0.windows.1

Any Idea what might have happened?

Yes, switch to 2.140.0.windows.2: see https://stackoverflow.com/a/45539717/6309 — VonC, Aug 09 '17 at 11:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '17 at 16:19

As I mentioned in "Can't clone on windows but can clone on linux from Gitlab server", GitLab or Gitolite are set to parse for git-xxx commands.

But with 2.140.0.windows.1, git send commands as "git xxx", which means the command (now in args1) was not detected.

See commit 0f33428 which reverses that: you can then use git/releases/tag/v2.14.0.windows.2.

unknown git/gitolite command: 'git upload-pack RepoName'

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