Re: cant get git to work over http

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2008, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802191916020.7797@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e26d18e40802191106v51c907bdn6aa51acef5f530a3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:

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> > > If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
> > > configure the following variables in your configuration
> > > file:
> > >
> > >     branch.master.remote = <nickname>
> > >     branch.master.merge = <remote-ref>
> > >     remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
> > >     remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>
> > >
> > > See git-config(1) for details
> >
> > Did you follow this advice?  You've set up the
> > origin's URL now, and so it knows from where the
> > fetch step will happen, but have you set up the
> > merge step yet?  Does it know what branches to
> > merge on that pull request?
> 
> i dont understand what these values should be. 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
>  doesn't mention anything about configuring them.  So why cant i have 
> git working the same way over http as it does over ssh and the 
> filesystem?

You can. But please understand that there is a difference from having cloned from somewhere, or setting up an uncloned repository.

You are experiencing that it is not all that easy to set up tracking information when your local branch is the original, and the remote was initialised with your local branch.

So the documentation you quoted does not help. You are supposed to know enough about git details, such as where to find out what the branch.*.remote and branch.*.merge settings mean, before reading setup-git-server-over-http.txt.

Ciao, Dscho