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Re: git push question.. error: Unable to lock remote branch refs/heads/master

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ASaaron smith <beingthexemplarylists@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 31, 2008, 08:22 UTC
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Oh Shit, I just figured it out. I had a friggin .htaccess file in root, that was screwing things up. Sorry for any annoyance!

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:17 AM, aaron smith <beingthexemplarylists@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey All,
>
> First, i've looked all over for a solution to this, and can't seem to
> get it figured out. Here's my setup:
>
> centeos
> apache 2
> webdav
> git 1.6.1
>
> I went through most of the git config over http text file instructions
> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt),
> just for the quick and dirty. Here's what I have in my http conf:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>    ServerName www.codeendeavor.com
>    DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/codeendeavor/
>    DavLockDB /var/logs/httpd/webdav/davlock
>    <Location "/guttershark.git/">
>      DAV on
>    </Location>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> So, I have a bare git repo here:
> /var/www/vhosts/codeendeavor/guttershark.git/ (I used: mkdir
> guttershark.git; cd guttershark.git; git --bare init). And I've turned
> on webdav for that location.
>
> I created the DavLockDB directory: mkdir /var/logs/httpd/webdav/davlock
>
> And I've updated permissions on the git repo, and the webdav lock to
> apache:apache. And when it still didn't work, I updated the
> permissions on the git repo to 777, and on the davlock.
>
> I'm not sure what would be going on. I searched through the servers'
> empty git, and my local git repo for a lock file. But don't see
> anything.
>
> I don't have authentication on it yet so if you want to try and push
> to it, feel free.
>
> After all that. here is how I interact with it:
>
> $git push origin master
> Unable to lock remote branch refs/heads/master
> error: failed to push some refs to 'http://codeendeavor.com/guttershark.git/'
>
> Anyone have any idea?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
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