From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@strlen.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:42:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems with git over http
Message-ID: <20080920184257.GD18932@strlen.de>
In-Reply-To: <264855a00809201013h6003abbfr9bbdd20c92e9201d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Sean,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:13:53PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
> 
> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
> fatal: exec http-push failed.
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/'
> 
> What can I do to try to debug this, as the error message isn't helping
> me to sort out what is wrong.  The client and server are both running
> git-1.5.x (although the minor versions are a bit different).  Any
> suggestions?
Try cloning first.  And check the error log of apache.  I don't know how
pushing over http works, but maybe you installed git into /usr/local and
/usr/local/bin is not in the PATH for the apache user?

Best regards
Uwe