Re: Challenge of setting up git server (repository). Please help!

[Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>]

Deskin,

Many thanks for your explanation. I hope I understand what you said. I deleted /etc/xinetd.d/git-daemon. Then, I tried to git pull. But, I got connection refused. git uses port 9418. Should I request IT Admin to open the port 9418 for me?

git pull git://git.mycompany.com/pub/git/u-boot.git HEAD
git.mycompany.com[0: 10.66.4.168]: errno=Connection refused
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)

Another question, I got no output of "netstat | grep 9418". It means no program runs at port 9418 at the public repository machine. Is it correct?

netstat | grep 9418


--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu> wrote:

> From: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: Challenge of setting up git server (repository). Please help!
> To: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 2:13 PM
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:39:12PM -0800, Gary Yang wrote:
> > 
> > I am working on setting up a git server so that people
> can clone, pull and push their code at
> git.mycompany.com/pub/git+project path. 
> > However, I am having challenges. For people who setup
> their git servers, please share your experneces with me and
> tell me what I did wrong.
> > I greatly appreciate it.
> > 
> > After I made configurations, I ran the command, git
> update-server-info at the public repository machine. But, I
> got the error.
> > 
> > git pull http://git.mycompany.com/pub/git/u-boot.git
> HEAD
> > fatal:
> http://git.mycompany.com/pub/git/u-boot.git/info/refs not
> found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
> > 
> > The file /pub/git/u-boot.git/info/refs dose exist.
> > 
> > cat /pub/git/u-boot.git/info/refs
> > 87ee4576c4c31b7046fe2bbbdf309eaba5c3f346       
> refs/heads/master
> > 
> > My question:
> > 
> > Is the contet of /pub/git/u-boot.git/hooks/post-update
> correct? Should I change "exec
> git-update-server-info" to "exec git
> update-server-info"?
> > 
> > cat /pub/git/u-boot.git/hooks/post-update
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # An example hook script to prepare a packed
> repository for use over
> > # dumb transports.
> > #
> > # To enable this hook, rename this file to
> "post-update".
> > exec git-update-server-info
> > 
> > I tried and changed "exec
> git-update-server-info" to "exec git
> update-server-info" in
> /pub/git/u-boot.git/hooks/post-update. But, I still got same
> error.
> > git pull http://git.mycompany.com/pub/git/u-boot.git
> HEAD
> > fatal:
> http://git.mycompany.com/pub/git/u-boot.git/info/refs not
> found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
> > 
> > Which one is correct? "exec
> git-update-server-info" or "exec git
> update-server-info"? Eventhogh none of them working.
> > 
> > Below are my settings:
> > 
> > grep 9418 /etc/services
> > git             9418/tcp                        # Git
> Version Control System
> > 
> > 
> > grep git /etc/inetd.conf
> > git     stream  tcp     nowait  nobody 
> /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-daemon git-daemon --inetd
> --export-all /pub/git
> > 
> > 
> > cat /etc/xinetd.d/git-daemon
> > # default: off
> > # description: The git server offers access to git
> repositories
> > service git
> > {
> >         disable = no
> >         type            = UNLISTED
> >         port            = 9418
> >         socket_type     = stream
> >         wait            = no
> >         user            = nobody
> >         server          =
> /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-daemon
> >         server_args     = --inetd --export-all
> --base-path=/pub/git
> >         log_on_failure  += USERID
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > I am running git at Linux box:
> > uname -a
> > Linux svdclw004 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 7
> 13:56:44 EST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > Are there anything wrong? Please let me know.
> 
> You tried to fetch from a http url, but your settings make
> no mention of
> running a web server.  git-update-server-info is only
> relevant in the context
> of using a web server to serve git repositories via the
> same http protocol as
> is used by web servers everywhere.  git-daemon, on the
> other hand, which is
> what you show configured here, is used to serve git
> repositories via a git://
> url.  Its configuration has no effect on whether using http
> to fetch a git
> repository will work or not.
> 
> Either use a git:// url to fetch the project, or set up a
> web server which
> serves stuff under /pub/git.
> 
> I'll also mention that you appear to have configuration
> for both inetd and
> xinetd, which are two generally mutually-exclusive
> 'super-servers'; and
> furthermore, your configurations are inconsistent in the
> arguments they pass to
> git-daemon: it looks like, were you to replace http:// with
> git://, the inetd
> config would work as listed, while xinetd would not.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Deskin Miller
> 
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