Re: Invalid path on new Git installation

From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date: May 27, 2008, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20080527151406.GA16378@bit.office.eurotux.com>
In-Reply-To: <8345bd80805270758j1315234bwf3b16607c95c9620@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:58:05PM +0100, Marcus wrote:

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> Can anybody help me with defining a valid path to a Git repo on a new
> installation?
> I just built Git on a webserver (a VPS so I have root access). When I
> try clone or push I get this error:
> 
> fatal: '/git/watchsite.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fetch-pack from 'ssh://me@mydomain.com/git/projectname.git' failed.
> 
> Why this when I can use wget on this path:
> wget mydomain.com/git/projectname.git/file.html
> The above successfully downloads the file, so the path is valid, right?

ssh://me@mydomain.com/git/projectname.git means the folder /git/projectname.git in host mydomain.com

http://mydomain.com/git/projectname.git/file.html means whatever folder your webserver is mapping /git/projectname.git to. Usually, /var/www/html/git/projectname.git.

> I also did "git init" on the remote repo (not sure if that's necessary?).

What is the correct path on the remote? Note that ssh://host/dir isn't the same as host:dir (both are acceptable), as the latter means ~me/dir, while the former means /dir.

You could switch to the me@host:path location, or add a ~/: ssh://me@host/~/dir

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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>