error: cannot spawn git: No such file or directory

[Matthew Kanwisher]

OMFG if you ever get this error "error: cannot spawn git: No such
file or directory" its a really nasty issue. It took me a day to track
it down, but it boils down to if you have more then 500 tags in a
repository it must blow up some internal command line limits on
cygwin.

TLDR: if you get this error, remove a bunch of your tags

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Matthew Kanwisher wrote:

> OMFG if you ever get this error "error: cannot spawn git: No such file
> or directory" its a really nasty issue. It took me a day to track it
> down, but it boils down to if you have more then 500 tags in a
> repository it must blow up some internal command line limits on cygwin.

Good point, but are you sure you're using Git for Windows on Cygwin?

Ciao,
Johannes

[Matthew Campbell]

I'm using MSysGit

~Matt

[the...@scottnelle.com]

I recently ran into this issue, and after searching found that people were saying the problem might be with spaces in the path to ssh.exe. This is what I did to fix it:

1. Uninstall Git (this doesn't uninstall your existing repositories or any SSH keys you've generated. Yay!)
   
2. Reinstall git at C:\Git
3. Open git bash
4. run this command: export GIT_SSH=/c/Git/bin/ssh.exe

That's all it took for me--I didn't have to delete tags or anything like that.

[chidanan...@thoughtfocus.com]

I have around 1300 tags with me and when I push branches & master to Bitbucket it is working fine. But when I push TAGS I found the same error.

 "error: cannot spawn git: No such file or directory"

I Don't have any enterprise level bitbucket with me and only for Enterprise level we will get the required space. Since I have the git repository with around 4GB data it is not allowing me. 

I hope if you are pushing the tags to a ENTERPRISE level Github or Bitbucket  it should work. 

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[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On 2015-08-18 13:51, nanda...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have around 1300 tags with me and when I push branches & master to
> Bitbucket it is working fine. But when I push TAGS I found the same
> error.
>
> "error: cannot spawn git: No such file or directory"

I had to close a ticket that was supposed to address this because it
derailed into some unnecessary emotional discussion instead
(msysgit/msysgit#184).

If you feel up for it, it would be awesome if you could tackle this
issue and work on a patch for Git. In that case, I would gladly give you
some pointers where to start and how to go about it.

Ciao,
Johannes