Re: git-push through git protocol

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2007, 01:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701211749140.14248@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <17844.5120.316805.794579@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

> 
> I applied the patches and I get failure.  I have appended the entire
> test case after my sig.  The last part reads:

Ok, that's different. It worked for me, several times. As far as I can tell, the biggest thing is just a difference in OS and the fact that I'm not running the git daemon from xinetd, but directly by hand as myself.

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> % git push
> updating 'refs/heads/master'
>   from fee4efae4f3b98cce0fe85efc746291157fffbcd
>   to   e1179a3bf842ddcf4643740a396b46ce7ebd4ada
> Generating pack...
> Done counting 5 objects.
> Result has 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/master n/a (unpacker error)

Umm. Your git daemon is probably running as "nobody", and simply doesn't have write permissions to the archive, does it?

> % cat /etc/xinet.d/git-daemon
> service git
> {
>         user            = nobody

iow, I think you simply need to make sure that git-daemon will have write permission to the thing. Either by making the whole repository writable by nobody, or by running git-daemon as the proper user.

		Linus