Re: Can I use git protocol to push change to remote repo?

From: Emily Ren <lingyan.ren@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2008, 08:48 UTC
Message-ID: <856bfe0e0812160048l7d901658tca96f5055c69743c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081216073835.GA2468@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Peff,

Thank you for your help ! I read the git-daemon description, and added following lines in the config file of remote repository.

 [daemon]
       receivepack = true

It failed with another error, is there anything I missed to config daemon ?
$ git push git://host.xz/testgit test_push2
updating 'refs/heads/test_push2'
  from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  to   eebb60caae38a38361d002cdace043124a2fc871
Generating pack...
Done counting 3 objects.
Deltifying 3 objects...
 100% (3/3) done
Writing 3 objects...
 100% (3/3) done
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
unpack unpacker exited with error code
ng refs/heads/test_push2 n/a (unpacker error)
error: failed to push to 'git://host.xz/testgit'

Thanks, Emily

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:22:17PM +0800, Emily Ren wrote:
>
>> I can clone a remote repo with git protocol, but I can't push my
>> branch to origin repo with git protocol. If I use ssh protocol, I can
>> push sccuessfully. I'm confused, can someone give me a guide on this?
>> Can I use git protocol to push my branch to remote repo? If yes, how
>> can I do ? Thank you for your help in advance !
>
> Yes, git-daemon does not support pushing by default, since it doesn't do
> any authentication of the pushing users. The recommended practice is to
> push over ssh, which uses the exact same protocol, but is tunneled over
> ssh, so the user is authenticated and the incoming data has an integrity
> check (note that pulling by ssh is also the same protocol as pulling via
> git://, except of course that it is also tunneled over ssh; this means
> that if you are pushing and pulling, you can just set your remote to
> talk to the ssh version).
>
> If you _really_ want totally anonymous, unsecured pushing to your repo
> (e.g., because you are on a restricted LAN and everybody is trusted),
> you can enable the receive-pack service. See the git-daemon
> documentation for details.
>
> -Peff
>