Re: Cloning remote HTTP repository: Can only see 'master' branch
Ah! Lovely, thank you, Jeff!
Alas, it's a shared server so I'm limited to what the host provides, but that solves my problem.
Cheers!
On 29 Jan 2013, at 19:23, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:54:13PM +1100, Michael Tyson wrote:
>
>> I've a readonly git repository that I'm hosting via HTTP (a bare git
>> repository located within the appropriate directory on the server). I
>> push to it via my own SSH account (local repository with a remote
>> pointing to the ssh:// URL).
>>
>> This has all worked fine so far - I push via ssh, and others can clone
>> and pull via the HTTP URL.
>>
>> I've recently added a branch - "beta" - which pushed just fine, but
>> now cloning via the HTTP URL doesn't seem to show the new branch -
>> just master:
>
> If you are using the "dumb" http protocol (i.e., the web server knows
> nothing about git, and just serves the repo files), you need to run "git
> update-server-info" after each push in order to update the static file
> that tells the git client about each ref. You can have git do it
> automatically for you by setting receive.updateServerInfo in the server
> repo's config.
>
> If the server is yours to control, consider setting up the "smart" http
> protocol, as it is much more efficient. Details are in "git help
> http-backend".
>
> -Peff
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