From: Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:51:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems with git over http
Message-ID: <264855a00809211351j1392ad97xf2cd98944014edc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqskrto48n.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> "Sean Davis" <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Do you have git-http-push somewhere? What does "git http-push" say?
>
> Probably you have a version of Git compiled with a too old libcurl
> (IIRC, it could have "worked", but a bug in the old libcurl could
> cause repository corruption, and therefore, git refuses to build
> http-push with such version of libcurl).

That was dumb on my part.  That is, indeed, an issue.  Both the mac
binary that I found and the rpm for opensuse do not include
git-http-push.

Sean