Re: [PROBLEM] Checkout from cloned repository does not work

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 3, 2005, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmzmua9ow.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1125730179.29087.3.camel@localhost>

Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:

> I double checked that -- no, it does not print out an error. I copied
> the exact output in the original mail.

Which ended with the error message "Somebody should define smarter http server protocol". That's from git-clone-script and the echo to generate the output is followed by "exit 1".

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>> +[NOTE]
>> +If you plan to publish this repository to be accessed over http,
>> +you should do `chmod +x my-git.git/hooks/post-update` at this
>> +point.
>
> How about "must do chmod before pushing anything to this repository"? I
> think I tried chmod at some point but always did it too late (i.e. after
> the initial push).

I think "at this point" in the flow of tutorial text would be explicit enough, but I am not very good at writing documentation, so rewording/clarifying patches are always welcome.

You could always run git-update-server-info manually after pushing if you forgot to enable the hook. If you are paranoid you could run it with '-f' flag to rebuild the info from scratch.