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

[Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>]

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