Re: Problems with git over http

From: Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Date: Sep 20, 2008, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <264855a00809201340r397d2901h14a7e33a3eed5f06@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080920184257.GD18932@strlen.de>

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@strlen.de> wrote:

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> 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?

Thanks, Uwe.  Good idea.  On the client:

orf-01569049:/tmp sdavis$ git clone http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/sean_git/.git/ cat: /tmp/sean_git/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/git-clone: line 4: cd: /tmp/sean_git/.git/refs/remotes/origin: No such file or directory fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

Nothing in the error_log on apache. Why would git be looking for a remotes origin since I am cloning from a remote source?

Sean