Functional GIT on F11 ?

[Aaron Gray]

2009/7/22 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>

> Aaron Gray wrote:
> > I have set '/pub/git/expermental' to 'git:gitgroup'
> >
> > and added 'gitgroup' as a group to 'ang'
> >
> > remotely this fails :-
> >
> > ang at AMD2500-PC ~/git/experimental
> > $ git push ssh://git.cybercomms.org/pub/git/experimental/.git
> > ang at git.cybercomms.org's password:
> > Counting objects: 3, done.
> > Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
> > Writing objects: 100% (2/2), 234 bytes, done.
> > Total 2 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
> > error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
> database
> > ./obj
> > ects
> > fatal: failed to write object
> > error: unpack failed: unpacker exited with error code
> > To ssh://git.cybercomms.org/pub/git/experimental/.git
> >  ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
> > error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://
> > git.cybercomms.org/pub/git/experimenta
> > l/.git'
> >  But if I set ''/pub/git/expermental' to 'ang:ang' then it works.
>
> Is /pub/git/experimental set to be a shared repo?  What is the output
> of:
>
>    $ git --git-dir /pub/git/experimental config core.sharedRepository
>
> It should report true.  If not, set that via:
>
> >>>>     # Tell git the repository is shared
> >>>>     $ git --git-dir /pub/git/experimental config core.sharedrepository
> true
>

Okay that was needed Todd !


>
> Then check that you've set all the permissions as outlined below:
>
> >>>>     # Set proper group ownership
> >>>>     $ chgrp -R gitgroup /pub/git/expermental
> >>>>
> >>>>     # Make all directories setgid
> >>>>     $ find /pub/git/expermental -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
> >>>>
> >>>>     # Ensure files and dirs are group writable
> >>>>     $ find /pub/git/expermental/ \( -type f -o -type d \) -a \
> >>>>                           \( -perm /u+w -a ! -perm /g+w \) \
> >>>>         xargs chmod g+w
>
> Lastly, it's generally a good idea to only ever push to a 'bare'
> repository, i.e. a repository that has no working directory associated
> with it.  This isn't related to your permissions problem, but it is
> something that can bite you later, so it's worth mentioning.  When you
> create a remote repository, it should generally be done using either:
>
>    $ git clone -q --bare some/git/url /path/to/new/repo.git
> or
>    $ git --git-dir /path/to/new/repo.git --bare init --shared=true
>
> By convention, bare repositories end with .git.
>


That answers a long unanswered question, thanks !

Well, looks like thats got most of my problems and queries solved.

Just gotta remember how to do branches and work out how to update them
against a moving svn project !

Thanks very, vrey much,

Aaron



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