Newbie to git

Howdy people,

I'm a using of git for several time, but now I have the need to a git server. My question, where can get a howto for reallyyyy newbies on git server?

I have part of it setup but still not working.

Thanks in advanced, Jorge,

One question:

I've created a project on the server with:

mkdir project.git cd project.git git init

-and now locally, created a directory, and cloned this, it said that i was cloning an empty repo, fine about that. -now i added something locally, i get: (locally this is on a windows machine with tortoiso git)

-- git.exe push --tags "origin" master:git://192.168.1.206/projects.git

error: src refspec master:git does not match any. error: failed to push some refs to 'git://192.168.1.206/projects.git' --

I've read somewhere that i have to init both repos, remote and local to the same branch, is it correct?

My idea is:

- clone remote repo
- add projects locally and commit them to remote

how can this be done easylly?

2009/12/27  <mysql.jorge@decimal.pt>:

Firstly, I would have a serious look at 'gitosis' for the server end (there are other similar projects I believe).

Secondly, the push command is wrong. You don't need to supply the remote URL again... that's what 'origin' is telling the push command, which remote to use. This would have been established by the original clone.

Also, again, be careful with 'empty' repositories. (again AFAIK) an empty repository is just that, it doesn't even have a master branch so you really need to check out a branch and commit something before pushing makes much sense. I'm sure this is not 100% correct but you'll be safe that way!

Howard

Hi Howard,

Well, gitosis even made me more confused :P

Let me reask: I'm running git deamon under supervisor with:

/usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon --syslog --export-all --enable=receive-pack --verbose --base-path=/home/apache/gitprojects

then i went to /home/apache/gitprojects and runned:

git init git add .

but for example, CGIT web interface says:

-- Not a git repository: '/home/apache/gitprojects' generated by cgit at 2009-12-27 21:54:47 (GMT) --

what could i be missing here? I've been reading howto's i find on the web, but all lead me to the same point, what i did and non work.. (with me).

Jorge,

<mysql.jorge@decimal.pt> writes:

You probably want to create a bare repository in this directory:

$ git init --bare foo.git

Andreas.

Hi Andreas,

Ok one more point, seams to be that! Forgive my really newbie question:

not i have: /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git

created with: git init --base mydir.git

Now, inside here, what should i do to create my projects:

mkdir myproject1 cd myproject1 git init touch a.txt git add . git commit -m "1st commit"

am i correct or not really?

<mysql.jorge@decimal.pt> writes:

If you are addressing Andreas, why does your mail have:

    To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>

and no other addressee???

You created "myproject1" somewhere you started "mkdir" in (perhaps in $HOME?) [*1*] and that project tracks a single file "a.txt"; you are correct if that was what you wanted to do.

The new repository "myproject1" doesn't have any relation to the bare repository at /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ you created earlier. The next steps I recommend new people are:

 (1) push into the public repository, by doing:

     cd myproject1
     git push /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ master

 (2) make sure push went correctly by trying to clone from there:

     cd ..
     mv myproject1 myproject1.old
     git clone /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ myproject1

 (3) check if the clone is what you expect

     diff myproject1.old/a.txt myproject1/a.txt

 (4) once satisfied, remove the old one

     rm -fr myproject1.old

And keep working in the myproject1 repository from there on.

[Footnote]

*1* If you started that "mkdir" somewhere else you may want to remove it and redo that step, especially if you did so inside that bare repository you created earlier, i.e. /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git directory. You don't want to have it there.

My error, sorry :)

Thank you, i understood, i believe i really did. did that test and it's OK. But let me reask in another way:

I want to setup the git server, to accept new branch's created in a remote place that will be push'ed to it, please correct me, 'cause i'm doing something wrong and i don't know what yet.

- setup git server to run with:
/usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon --reuseaddr --syslog --export-all
--enable=receive-pack --verbose --base-path=/home/apache/gitprojects

- created directory /home/apache/gitprojects
- git init --bare /home/apache/gitprojects

- what will be my link on the remote? "git://192.168.1.206" just?
- From now on, how can I have access to push projects that exist on other
machine?

Sorry for the questions... they are newbie! Jorge,

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:34 AM,  <mysql.jorge@decimal.pt> wrote:

Your /home/apache/gitprojects is a folder where your git repositories are supposed to be placed. Your Git repository = your project.

By running a git daemon the way you do - you say that you are going to serve all repositories from /home/apache/gitprojects.

Bare repo = repo without working copy - the one which contains only history and git objects (imagine it to be only .git folder from normal repo) Therefore for bare repos there is a naming convention so they have .git extension, while normal repo doesn't. So, myProject.git is server based bare repo, while myProject is a local repo.

Finally you have /home/apache/gitprojects/myProject.git

The URL to clone from there will be - should be shown to you by CGIT if you have everything correctly set up git://192.168.1.206/myProject.git

Hope that helps, Eugene

Lets see if i understood:

my steps:

git init --bare /home/apache/gitbare cd /home/apache/gitprojects mkdir project cd project git init myproject.git

on gitweb, i see the project names in this format: "myproject.git/.git"

for example, for the git repo on git.kernel.org, it is shown as: "git/git.git"

shouldn't it appear in the same way here?

i have: $projectroot = "/home/apache/gitprojects/project/";

for CGIT, i have: repo.path=/home/apache/gitprojects/project/myproject.git

but it doesn't show nothing after i click it.

on the other hand, i cannot push changes via remote, after cloned the repository with:

git clone git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git

add some files

git add . git commit -m "aaaa" git push --tags "origin" master:master

and get:

error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to
'git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git'
Failed

i feel i'm almost there but something is missing here... sorry my newbienest!

Jorge,

I remember having similar problem. I think it is with the user permissions. Check if the 'push-user' has read-write permissions on public repo. Check out  '--shared' option while initializing bare repo  (git-init --bare) or set appropriate permissions using chown/chmod. Hope this helps..

Thanks, Shantanu Pavgi.

________________________________________
From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Bastos [mysql.jorge@decimal.pt]
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:23 PM
To: Eugene Sajine
Cc: Junio C Hamano; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie to git

Lets see if i understood:

my steps:

git init --bare /home/apache/gitbare cd /home/apache/gitprojects mkdir project cd project git init myproject.git

on gitweb, i see the project names in this format: "myproject.git/.git"

for example, for the git repo on git.kernel.org, it is shown as: "git/git.git"

shouldn't it appear in the same way here?

i have: $projectroot = "/home/apache/gitprojects/project/";

for CGIT, i have: repo.path=/home/apache/gitprojects/project/myproject.git

but it doesn't show nothing after i click it.

on the other hand, i cannot push changes via remote, after cloned the repository with:

git clone git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git

add some files

git add . git commit -m "aaaa" git push --tags "origin" master:master

and get:

error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to
'git://192.168.1.206/project/myproject.git'
Failed

i feel i'm almost there but something is missing here... sorry my newbienest!

public

(git-init

helps..

Bingo!

Thank you, Jorge,