RE: Trying to understand the web dav details

From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date: Jan 6, 2013, 06:20 UTC
Message-ID: <A18DA90EFF3743E5B580CBC68F1C9F7C@black>
In-Reply-To: <20130106053807.GA8551@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Ignore everything below, it was a case sensitive typo. It always worked it.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff King
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 0:38
> 
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 04:49:57AM +0000, Pyeron, Jason J CTR 
> (US) wrote:
> 
> > > > How does the ?service=xxxx get translated in to the action 
> > > > performed on the web server?
> > > 
> > > If you are using the git-http-backend CGI, it will interpret the 
> > > service
> > 
> > No, using plain jane http and webdav. This server is not 
> "allowed" to 
> > use cgi processes.
> 
> Then the service parameter should be ignored by your 
> webserver, and it should just serve the info/refs file from 
> the repository on the filesystem. And you are stuck using 
> WebDAV for push.
> 
> > > GET /git/project-x/info/refs HTTP/1.1
> > [...]
> > * The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
> 
> Does the info/refs file exist in the project-x repository?

Yes.

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> 
> > fatal: https://server/git/project-x/info/refs not found: 
> did you run git update-server-info on the server?
> 
> Did you?
>

Many times.

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> If you can't run any git programs on the server at all (and 
> it sounds like that may be the case), you'll need to run it 
> locally before putting the repository data on the server.
> 
> Once you have WebDAV set up for pushing, it will update the 
> info/refs file for each push. But if you are initially 
> seeding the server with rsync or a tarfile, you'll want to

Seeding it seems to work, it is the bare init that seems to be failing. Might be on to something there.

> make sure it has an up-to-date info/refs file.

Here is the create script:

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# != 1 ]; then exit 1; fi

if [ -e "$1" ]; then exit 2; fi

mkdir "$1" cd "$1" git init --bare cp hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update chmod +x hooks/post-update git update-server-info

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