# Absolute Beginner 8 messages from 2010-11-23 to 2010-11-26. Participants: marcos, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Marcos Nogueira, Howard Miller, Ilari Liusvaara. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25819 ## marcos, 2010-11-23 12:41 Subject: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: <1290516065002-5766449.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1290516065002-5766449.post%40n2.nabble.com ``` I'm an absolute beginner with Git. So far I've managed to install, understand and use Git locally, but am facing many difficulties on using a centralized repository on a LAN local server. I've followed the instructions on many places over the web, but none has worked so far. As the development team grows (we're 5 at this moment), consolidating and synchronizing the files is becoming almost impossible. Any help will be much appreciated. TIA, Marcos Nogueira S. Paulo - Brazil -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Absolute-Beginner-tp5766449p5766449.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2010-11-23 12:45 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTindQRaUMXiQ_2Fa-guKtZz5oV89Gw7W0dapO9MT%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1290516065002-5766449.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:41 PM, marcos wrote: > > I'm an absolute beginner with Git. So far I've managed to install, understand > and use Git locally, but am facing many difficulties on using a centralized > repository on a LAN local server. I've followed the instructions on many > places over the web, but none has worked so far. As the development team > grows (we're 5 at this moment), consolidating and synchronizing the files is > becoming almost impossible. Any help will be much appreciated. We need to know what difficulties you have. What do you want to achieve? What instructions have you followed? What commands have you tried? Any errors from them... -- Duy ``` ## Marcos Nogueira, 2010-11-23 14:16 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: <201011231216.33207.marcos@arena.com.br> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201011231216.33207.marcos%40arena.com.br In-Reply-To: ``` Hello Duy, Thanks for your reply. Since this is my first visit to this mailing-list, I don't know its etiquette rules yet. Is this the place to get help? Can I post long messages? The whole story of setting up our Git server is quite big... :-) Anyway, follows below a list of some of the places where I've found the instructions I've mentioned: http://progit.org/book/ch4-0.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-a-public-git-repository-on-a-debian-server http://batterypowered.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/deploying-a-git-repository-server-in-ubuntu/ http://mattrude.com/2009/07/creating-a-secure-git-repository-server/ http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-daemon.html http://gofedora.com/how-to-install-configure-gitweb/ Trying to make it short, the last attempt to push a local project to the server produced the following results: (...) marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit. # nothing to commit (working directory clean) marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ ls teste.txt marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ git push origin master Counting objects: 5, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 293 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match remote: error: the work tree to HEAD. remote: error: remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some remote: error: other way. remote: error: remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. To git@srvpkt:/home/public/teste_sem_bare ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@srvpkt:/home/public/teste_sem_bare' marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ (...) Thanks again, Marcos > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:41 PM, marcos wrote: > > > > I'm an absolute beginner with Git. So far I've managed to install, understand > > and use Git locally, but am facing many difficulties on using a centralized > > repository on a LAN local server. I've followed the instructions on many > > places over the web, but none has worked so far. As the development team > > grows (we're 5 at this moment), consolidating and synchronizing the files is > > becoming almost impossible. Any help will be much appreciated. > > We need to know what difficulties you have. What do you want to > achieve? What instructions have you followed? What commands have you > tried? Any errors from them... > ``` ## marcos, 2010-11-23 15:24 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: <1290525868767-5766781.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1290525868767-5766781.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hello Duy, I've just replied by email. See below the message sent: (...) Thanks for your reply. Since this is my first visit to this mailing-list, I don't know its etiquette rules yet. Is this the place to get help? Can I post long messages? The whole story of setting up our Git server is quite big... :-) Anyway, follows below a list of some of the places where I've found the instructions I've mentioned: http://progit.org/book/ch4-0.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-a-public-git-repository-on-a-debian-server http://batterypowered.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/deploying-a-git-repository-server-in-ubuntu/ http://mattrude.com/2009/07/creating-a-secure-git-repository-server/ http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-daemon.html http://gofedora.com/how-to-install-configure-gitweb/ Trying to make it short, the last attempt to push a local project to the server produced the following results: marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit. # nothing to commit (working directory clean) marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ ls teste.txt marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ git push origin master Counting objects: 5, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 293 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match remote: error: the work tree to HEAD. remote: error: remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some remote: error: other way. remote: error: remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. To git@srvpkt:/home/public/teste_sem_bare ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@srvpkt:/home/public/teste_sem_bare' marcos@hp-laptop:~/teste_sem_bare$ (...) Then I received a reply from Howard Miller: (...) You are trying to push to a repo that isn't bare. Not impossible but problematic and you can't do it at all by default (as you have found). Personally I would look at a central shared repo. You could just get an account on (something like) GitHub or setup your own (something like Gitosis). (...) >From now on I'll remain here at Nabble regarding this subject. Thanks again, Marcos -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Absolute-Beginner-tp5766449p5766781.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Howard Miller, 2010-11-23 15:28 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3Dk1LhUS1Af0kGkjh_FyuAY_T1YRj4x2wpdM3NZ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1290525868767-5766781.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` > Then I received a reply from Howard Miller: > > (...) Sorry, I forgot to 'plain text' my reply. The list doesn't like that. ``` ## Ilari Liusvaara, 2010-11-23 15:54 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: <20101123155436.GA10420@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101123155436.GA10420%40LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi In-Reply-To: <1290525868767-5766781.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:24:28AM -0800, marcos wrote: > > Then I received a reply from Howard Miller: > > (...) > You are trying to push to a repo that isn't bare. Not impossible but > problematic and you can't do it at all by default (as you have found). > > Personally I would look at a central shared repo. You could just get an > account on (something like) GitHub or setup your own (something like > Gitosis). > (...) Don't use Gitosis, it is obsolete. Use Gitolite instead. -Ilari ``` ## Howard Miller, 2010-11-23 16:03 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTim8G%2BGi5ibhLnpE0XjgsNJPP_%2BeR0awrOpwF2D4%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20101123155436.GA10420@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi> ``` On 23 November 2010 15:54, Ilari Liusvaara wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:24:28AM -0800, marcos wrote: >> >> Then I received a reply from Howard Miller: >> >> (...) >> You are trying to push to a repo that isn't bare. Not impossible but >> problematic and you can't do it at all by default (as you have found). >> >> Personally I would look at a central shared repo. You could just get an >> account on (something like) GitHub or setup your own (something like >> Gitosis). >> (...) > > Don't use Gitosis, it is obsolete. Use Gitolite instead. > > -Ilari Another job on the TODO list: "migrate Gitosis to Gitolite". Sigh!! :) ``` ## marcos, 2010-11-26 18:59 Subject: Re: Absolute Beginner Message-ID: <1290797977678-5778209.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1290797977678-5778209.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: ``` Thanks to the helpful people here and in other forums, I'm not an absolute beginner anymore: a repository is running fine on our server, and the team is now learning how to work as a team :-) One last request regarding this subject: based on your experience with Git, how many repositories a software (web application) project usually has? -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Absolute-Beginner-tp5766449p5778209.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```