Okay, pretty specific problem: I have a git repository on a remote machine and ssh access to that machine. BUT there's no git on the remote machine.
When I now try to checkout via git clone user@host:/path/to/repo, it fails with the error bash: git-upload-pack: command not found - not really surprising since git is not installed.
My question is this: Is there any way around git-upload-pack? I'm only using git as a normalized file storage/named blob db, so I don't want make the server setup more complicated than necessary.
the git client is not all that complex to install. There is no server processes or anything like that, just a bunch of executables. I'm pretty sure you can install in in your own user-space too if you want to keep your server pristine.
That would be my first option.
otherwise you can try a simple copy.
If you need to move around the repository (clone it) you should be able to do that just by copying the folder structure as a whole to some other place, effectively making a clone ! Not entirely sure here since i'm ve been on a force git diet for a while now but if memory serves I have used this very same strategy a few times already without problems.
That said, try and get the git client, it will make every thing much more simple (well almost everything, have not yet found a way to auto-fill tax forms with it ... sigh).
hope this helps