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   vinay on 15 Sep 2010

   Although git is installed on shared servers, users cant use it to host remote repo. So everytime i use a git push, I was getting the following error

   git: ‘index-pack’ is not a git-command. See ‘git –help’.
   Writing objects: 100% (302/302), 1.96 MiB, done.
   Total 302 (delta 140), reused 0 (delta 0)
   error: index-pack exited with error code 1
   error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit
   To ssh://thelionk@112.140.185.201:1122/home/thelionk/lionking.git
   ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
   error: failed to push some refs to ‘ssh://thelionk@112.140.185.201:1122/home/thelionk/lionking.git’

   The error actually says that git cannot find git-index-pack executable. I searched the whole server for git-index-pack and could not find it. So basically what i did was download git on to my server and set GIT_EXEC_PATH. Following code will help

   http://pastie.org/1160176

   You can also check your Git Executable Path using

   git –exec-path