I have been having the exact same issue pop up, 3 or 4 times now. You can workaround it by pasting that exact git clone command from the error into your own terminal session, and it usually succeeds when run manually. Now if you re-try the Julia Pkg.whatever(), it will continue with the one that you cloned manually.
On Friday, May 23, 2014 6:24:10 AM UTC-4, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > > There seem to have been several rounds of trouble with Pkg calling git in > OS X, and it may be that I've missed an existing unresolved issue here, and > that I'm therefore reiterating known material. I also added an issue to the > GitHub tracker (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6880) -- maybe > I should have discussed it here first. Sorry. > > But, yeah, the trouble is getting Pkg to work. For some reason, it *did* > work at some point (a week ago?). I managed to install a couple of packages > without a hitch. But then it stopped working, and I'm not sure what > changed. I don't *think* I changed my environment variables or the > installed version of Julia, but I'm not 100% sure. > > And, yes, I'm using MacPorts -- not sure if that's part of the issue. When > I run `which git` in Julia, it reports the MacPorts one, with version > number 1.8.5.5. But when I try to use it via Pkg, it fails. Now even init() > fails (after removing the .julia directory): > > *julia> **Pkg.init()* > > *INFO: Initializing package repository /Users/mlh/.julia/v0.3* > > *INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl > <http://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl>* > > usage: git index-pack [-v] [-o <index-file>] [--keep | --keep=<msg>] > [--verify] [--strict] (<pack-file> | --stdin [--fix-thin] [<pack-file>]) > > fatal: index-pack failed > > *ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q -b metadata-v2 > git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl > <http://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl> METADATA`, ProcessExited(128)) > [128]* > > * in pipeline_error at process.jl:489* > > * in run at process.jl:466* > > * in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:43* > > * in cd at file.jl:20* > > * in init at pkg/dir.jl:41* > > * in init at pkg.jl:16* > > > *julia> * > > Any suggestions for trouble-shooting? >
