# how to properly update dumb-hosted repo (using rsync..?)

2 messages from 2007-12-17 to 2007-12-17. Participants: Stephen Sinclair, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11332

## Stephen Sinclair, 2007-12-17 23:11

Subject: how to properly update dumb-hosted repo (using rsync..?)
Message-ID: <9b3e2dc20712171511r41e6bd4p64d243747ad4d2af@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9b3e2dc20712171511r41e6bd4p64d243747ad4d2af%40mail.gmail.com

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Hello!

I have a question related to dumb transports (i.e., http hosting without git).

I have a shell-accessible server which on which I have installed git,
but it is not a web server.  So to make my git repo public I have put
the repo on a web server which I cannot install git on.  I have made a
post-update hook on my server repo which runs git-update-server-info
and then uses rsync to copy the repo over to the public web server.
So far so good.  I am able to clone the http-hosted repo and push
changes to my private server which then get copied over to the http
repo.

However, after a git-push/rsync operation, I typed git-pull to try and
pull the changes I'd just made, and got the following:

-------------------
$ git-pull
Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
         "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
No changes.
-------------------

However I haven't done any branching in this cloned repo, it is
immediately after a git-clone from the web server.

My .git/config basically looks like this, minus the "core" section:

-------------------
[remote "origin"]
        url = http://my.server.com/git/project.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
-------------------

Which seems fine to me...
Any ideas?
This is of course only for people who want to clone my web-hosted repo
and then be able to subsequently git-pull my updates.

thanks,
Steve

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## Junio C Hamano, 2007-12-17 23:46

Subject: Re: how to properly update dumb-hosted repo (using rsync..?)
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v3au06g0r.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20712171511r41e6bd4p64d243747ad4d2af@mail.gmail.com>

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"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com> writes:

> $ git-pull
> Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
>          "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
> No changes.
> -------------------
>
> However I haven't done any branching in this cloned repo, it is
> immediately after a git-clone from the web server.
>
> My .git/config basically looks like this, minus the "core" section:
>
> -------------------
> [remote "origin"]
>         url = http://my.server.com/git/project.git
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> [branch "master"]
>         remote = origin
>         merge = refs/heads/master
> -------------------
>
> Which seems fine to me...
> Any ideas?

A dumb question.  does "git ls-remote origin" show what you expect to be
there?  Specifically, does refs/heads/master exist?

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