git-receive-pack missing credentials ?

From: François Dagorn <francois.dagorn@univ-rennes1.fr>
Date: Nov 7, 2011, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID: <4EB7FA3A.8070908@univ-rennes1.fr>

Hello all,

I'm experiencing problems when trying to set up a git repository managed by git-http-backend. I've done the following :

- on the server side

     cd /git
     mkdir test13
     git --bare init .
         >>> Initialized empty Git repository in /git/test13

     /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-update-server-info
     chown -R apache.apache .

- on the client side

    cd (project-directory)
    $ git init
    $ (add some files)
    $ git add .
    $ git commit -m 'Initial commit'
    git push http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13 master

        Username:
        Password:
        error: Cannot access URL http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13/, return code 22
        fatal: git-http-push failed

- apache acces_log

 1) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:31 +0100]
    "GET /test13/info/refs?service=git-     receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "git/1.7.3.4"
 2) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100]
    "GET /test13/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 23 "-" "git/1.7.3.4"
 3) ip-address - - [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100]
    "PROPFIND /test13/ HTTP/1.1" 401 492 "-" "git/1.7.3.4"

- what sounds strange to me : the 2 firsts requests are generated by my client side
  (wireshark used as a clue) but the third comes from the server side and the users
  credentials are missed !

- And also, I was hoping to use smart httpd and so the generated PROPFIND (DAV)
  is amazing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.

François Dagorn Université de rennes 1 France