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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Derek D <darek.dade@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Private remote repo setup
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:37:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0CD097.7090408@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091124T195818-835@post.gmane.org>

Derek D schrieb:
> Hi all, I am new to Git and I am getting quite frustrated with setting a repo 
> on my server so that people with Windows machines can ssh to it and contribute.
> 
> This is what I am doing:
> On the server:
> #git --bare init
  ^
This looks like you were root when you ran the command.

> Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/git-test/
> 
> In tortoiseGIT I go to git clone, provide correct url:
> ssh://user@domain/opt/apps/git-test/
> tortoiseGIT asks me for a password, I provide it, it's correct, the repository 
> gets created on the local machine and...
> 
> fatal: '/opt/apps/git-test': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> Initialized empty Git repository in C:/path/.git/
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> Failed
> 
> What happened there?

I guess that user does not have sufficient permissions to peek inside
/opt/apps/git-test.

-- Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-25  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-24 19:04 Private remote repo setup Derek D
2009-11-25  6:37 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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