From: Sean Davis Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:40:11 GMT Subject: Re: Problems with git over http 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 wrote: > 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