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Pete
Pete

Reputation: 4622

GIT remote cannot fetch via SSH

I've just initialized a GIT repo in an existing website root. I have a local development copy of this site, which is already a GIT repo. I can't just clone one from the other, as the local/live versions have fallen out of sync over the years.

I'm trying to get them lined back up with GIT again, but I want to be able to do a fetch on the live site and run git diff

My problem is, on the local site I've added the live site as a remote repo:

git remote add live [email protected]:/path/to/repo

I can successfully log in via ssh to my server:

ssh [email protected]

But when I try to fetch, and type in the ssh password, the command line just returns the password prompt, as if I've typed it wrong. But I know the password is correct, as I can use SSH to log in.

Do I have to specify ssh:// before my remote URL? Is there something I have to do to get ssh remote repos working

UPDATE

I've added the ssh:// prefix, but it's made no difference. This is how it looks in .git/config

[remote "live"]
    url = ssh://[email protected]/path/to/repo
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/live/*

Running GIT_TRACE=true git fetch live adds in the lines:

trace: run_command 'ssh' '[email protected]' 'git-upload-pack '\''/path/to/repo'\'''

I have to type the password in 3 times before I get the message:

fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4817

Answers (3)

JosefAssad
JosefAssad

Reputation: 4128

I think you're missing an alias for the remote.

git remote add origin [email protected]:/path/to/repo

Note the origin bit.

Is the .git/config you posted accurate? If it is, try changing the remote url from

url = ssh://[email protected]/path/to/repo

to

url = [email protected]:/path/to/repo

Note the : separating the server name from the server path.

Upvotes: 2

Learath2
Learath2

Reputation: 21363

Following only applys if you have shell access to the server. Probably not what you want but incase you want to try set up a public/private key auth. Simply generate a RSA keypair with command :

ssh-keygen -t rsa I would reccomend you to use a passphrase since you can store it in ssh-agent after generating a keypair copy the public key over to your server you can use scp :

scp -p ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub host:~/.ssh/ and then in server do cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys

Upvotes: 0

kofemann
kofemann

Reputation: 4423

yes, you need ssh://. Just change it in .git/config file:

url = ssh://[email protected]:/path/to/repo

Upvotes: 0

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