Pull not working - TortoiseGIT / Windows 7 / GIT on Debian + gitolite

Question

i have a weird issue. Im using TortoiseGIT (Win7) and my repositories are placed on a vritual server (Debian), where im using gitolite and SSH keys.

I can clone the repository to my PC, i can run Fetch, Push, Commit, Sync .. everything, but when trying to Pull the changes from server Pushed by other contributor, the following error appears:

git.exe pull -v --progress      "origin"
fatal: 'pull' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-pull is broken?
git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128)

I don't understand, why just the pull command is not working .. thanks for any help.

I can make a clone of the repository, with the contributed changes .. but can not Pull the changes to created repository on my PC.

Answer 1

I encountered this same issue after changing the git Bash executable sh.exe to be always run as administrator (to get round another problem). It then left git unable to access it under certain scenarios and caused various "Maybe git-* is broken?" errors. Perhaps this might help someone...

Answer 2

Uninstalling old Git and reinstalling the latest build fixed this issue for me.

Here's a link to the installers Link to get installers

My exact error message was

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/libexec/git-core\git-pull: line 304: exec: git-merge: not found
fatal: 'pull' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-pull is broken?