Re: Issue with GIT server

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sep 4, 2008, 10:41 UTC
Message-ID: <48BFBB72.1010403@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <9B6BEB600FC42B4A9A16868DA97FAFEE1B2ACF@bgsmsx412.gar.corp.intel.com>

Dutta, Ranjan wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I am facing the following issue with GIT server running on Ubuntu 8.04
> using an http interface (apache2)..
> 
> When I try to push code at the GIT client end
> 
> 1. git-add(s)
> 2. git-commit
> 3. sudo git push upload master
> 
> I get this error - 
> 
> error: http-push died with strange error
> error: failed to push some refs to 'http://<usernaM@<server ip
> address>/<git_dir>/'
> 
> Any pointers as to how to debug this further ?
>

To start with, you needn't use "sudo" to run git push.

Besides that, I'm guessing it's a permission error on the server, so that the apache user (or whatever user your webserver is running as) can't write to the files it needs to write to.

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