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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: cant get git to work over http
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:24:00 -0600
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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:
>>> $ git-pull
>>> fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>> Since you did not clone from anywhere, the remote "origin" is not set.
>> You will have to do that yourself:
>>
>>         git remote add -f origin http://aeyakovenko@myserver.com/git/repo/
> 
> Thanks, that worked.  but push still gives me an error:
> 
> $ git pull
> You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
> want to merge with, and 'branch.master.merge' in
> your configuration file does not tell me either.  Please
> name which branch you want to merge on the command line and
> try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
> See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec.
> 
> If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
> configure the following variables in your configuration
> file:
> 
>     branch.master.remote = <nickname>
>     branch.master.merge = <remote-ref>
>     remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
>     remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>
> 
> See git-config(1) for details

Did you follow this advice?  You've set up the
origin's URL now, and so it knows from where the
fetch step will happen, but have you set up the
merge step yet?  Does it know what branches to
merge on that pull request?

jdl