Creating new repos

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Oct 27, 2006, 12:29 UTC
Message-ID: <200610271229.k9RCTARu016773@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

I'm trying to set up git repos for remote access here. I set up git-daemon and got it working (some older repositories do work fine), but now:

  $ mkdir /var/scm/user/SomeRepo.git
  $ cd /var/scm/user/SomeRepo.git
  $ git --bare init-db
  $ touch git-daemon-export-ok

All OK, but then, from a remote machine:

  $ git clone git://git-server/user/SomeRepo.git
  fatal: no matching remote head
  fetch-pack from 'git://git-server/user/Test.git' failed.

The empty repo created by init-db should be cloneable, so as to get the ball rolling easily.

You can't push into such an empty repository either.

Any suggestion of how to set up a server into which users can create their own repos /without/ giving out full shell accounts?

Also, the behaviour of git-daemon is different when using git or ssh+git, you need to give the full path for the later but not the former (given --base-path=/var/scm):

  git://git-server/user/Test.git
  ssh+git://git-server/var/scm/user/Test.git

Is this intentional?

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