Re: cant get git to work over http

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2008, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802191115440.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e26d18e40802182309l693b2099wb42573aca7348091@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:

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> > > *.*.*.*- foobar [18/Feb/2008:16:40:12 -0800] "PROPFIND /git/repo
> > > HTTP/1.1" 301 320
> >
> > Try adding a / at the end of the url you use for your repo.
> 
> ah cool, that was it.  The initial push seems to have worked,
> 
> $ git push -v upload master
> Pushing to http://aeyakovenko@myserver.com/git/repo/
> Getting pack list
> Fetching remote heads...
>   refs/
>   refs/tags/
>   refs/heads/
> 'refs/heads/master': up-to-date
> 
> 
> but i cant clone or just normally push and pull the repo.

That's not correct.  You can clone, push and pull the repo.

> $ git-pull
> fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Since you did not clone from anywhere, the remote "origin" is not set. You will have to do that yourself:

	git remote add -f origin http://aeyakovenko@myserver.com/git/repo/

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> $ git-clone http://aeyakovenko@myserver.com/git/repo/ foobar
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aeyakovenko/projects/foobar/.git/
> cat: /home/aeyakovenko/projects/foobar/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master:
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/git-clone: line 450: cd:
> /home/aeyakovenko/projects/foobar/.git/refs/remotes/origin: No such
> file or directory
> fatal: : not a valid SHA1
> fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

That smells like another "master"-less repository. Why do people do that? Isn't it just _easier_ and more _hassle-free_ to just accept that the initial branch is called "master"?

Hth, Dscho