Issue setting up new git repository with Redmine virtual image.

I bet it is an authentication issue.  One way around is to just use SSH.

git clone ssh://root:password@192.168.1.169/git/test

So I gave it another try doing both methods git:// and ssh://

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

$ git clone ssh://root:<Password>@192.168.1.169/git/test

Cloning into test...

The authenticity of host '192.168.1.169 (192.168.1.169)' can't be established.

RSA key fingerprint is 14:85:91:43:cc:3c:84:ce:e9:e1:b7:54:36:07:90:4d.

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.169' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

root:Bgkxsjdf32@192.168.1.169's password:

fatal: '/git/test' does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

$ git clone git://192.168.1.169/git/test

Cloning into test...

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

Its a throw away password if i did, but i believe i canceled it out with <Password>

even without the password it still says "'/git/test' does not appear to be a repository'

I did another test using the helloworld git repository.  I can download the helloworld project using git:// but using ssh:// it gives me the 'not a repository' error again.

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

$ git clone ssh://root@192.168.1.169/git/test

Cloning into test...

root@192.168.1.169's password:

fatal: '/git/test' does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

$ git clone ssh://root@192.168.1.169/git/helloworld hw

Cloning into hw...

root@192.168.1.169's password:

fatal: '/git/helloworld' does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

 

sysop@Richard_Bandit ~/git

$ git clone git://192.168.1.169/git/helloworld hw

Cloning into hw...

remote: Counting objects: 7, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.

remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (7/7), done.

 

Sorry, I do everything with public/private key pairs so the syntax I gave you may be wrong.  Try doing so without the password:

git clone ssh://root@192.168.1.169/git/test

The message it gave you looks like it will then prompt you for your password.  It also looks like you posted your password, so you may want to change it.

That worked!  

My question now is why does git://192.168.1.169/git/helloworld work while git://192.168.1.169/git/test does not?

I think that if you use ssh, you may need to specify the local path to the repo. So instead of //server/git/repo you would need //server/srv/repos/git/repo.

Does this work for you? :

git clone ssh://root@192.168.1.169/srv/repos/git/test

As I said, I always use ssh and public keys.  So if anyone has tips on making all this work using git://, I would appreciate the knowledge as well.

It could be due to different file permissions and ownership on the two directories.

Do you know what i should look at to fix that or some keywords to google?

Use

cd /srv/repos/git
ls -l

to show you the permissions, owner, and group for the files.  I would look at the group of the helloworld directory and (recursively) modify the group of the test directory to match.

You can check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions for more information.

Does this look legit.  ignore releasecatcher, that's the actual repository i want but test repo is still valid.

 

root@redmine ~# cd /srv/repos/git ls -l

root@redmine repos/git# ls -l

total 16

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 08:06 helloworld

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   14 Dec 27 12:03 public -> /var/cache/git

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 14:24 releasecatcher

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 15:11 temp

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 15:26 test

 

 

 

root@redmine repos/git# ls -lR

.:

total 16

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 08:06 helloworld

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   14 Dec 27 12:03 public -> /var/cache/git

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 14:24 releasecatcher

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 15:11 temp

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 15:26 test

 

./helloworld:

total 8

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Oct 19 08:06 README

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95 Oct 19 08:06 helloworld.py

 

./releasecatcher:

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 14:24 readme

 

./temp:

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 15:11 releasecatcher

 

./temp/releasecatcher:

total 4

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Dec 29 15:12 readme

 

./test:

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 15:26 git-daemon-export-ok

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 15:23 readme

 

root@redmine repos/git# cd /var/cache/git/

root@redmine cache/git# ls -lR

.:

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 27 12:03 helloworld.git -> /srv/repos/git/helloworld/.git

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Dec 29 14:16 releasecatcher.git -> /srv/repos/git/releasecatcher/.git

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 29 15:25 test.git -> /srv/repos/git/test.git

 

 

I guess is missing the git-daemon-export-ok, so you need to got into the .git directory ad run

touch git-daemon-export-ok

And everything must run smoothly.

Phillip


 

Everything is owned by root, so it probably doesn't have to do with file permissions.  Sorry, but I don't know the answer to this and don't currently have a system set up to test with.