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Lazao
Lazao

Reputation: 225

Redmine: The entry or revision was not found in the repository

I'm trying to access a git repository with Redmine. Unfortunately, I'm not able to do this, here is the error given :

The entry or revision was not found in the repository.

Here is my configuration:

SCM: Git
Main Repository: Checked
Identifier: wide
Path to repository: /var/repos/git/wide
Path encoding: UTF-8

I tried several things. After cloning my non-bare repository into a bare repository, I tried these several paths:

/var/repos/git/wide
/var/repos/git/wide/.git
/var/repos/git/wide.git
/var/repos/git/wide.git/.git

I also tried to change the owner of my git repository to apache (as apache runs Redmine).

Any help would be appreciated. Regards.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2111

Answers (1)

bish
bish

Reputation: 3419

I wrote this tutorial (on official redmine page) HowTo: easily integerate a (SSH secured) GIT repository into redmine some time ago with detailed command to execute and a quite detailed example. If you don't have a ssh secured GIT repository, ignore the statements regarding this.

In short (if you know the commands by mind) main things are:

  • Folder for the repository the redmine user can read/write
  • Cloning the repository as MIRROR (not BARE)!
  • Set up your repository in redmine project settings without .git just the folder (full path)
  • Adding a cronjob to automatically fetch the repository and update the data inside redmine

Hope this helps you

edit: The full tutorial written by myself

HowTo: Easily integrate a (SSH secured) GIT repository into redmine

Scope

This HowTo will show how to integrate a GIT repository to your redmine project and how to keep the repository up to date.

Prerequisites

  • The owner of your redmine-directory needs an SSH-Key and (reading) access to the repository you want to integrate in redmine.
  • A directory to clone the GIT-repository is needed.
  • Redmine must find the GIT-binaries, that means GIT must be installed. You can check this in redmine in the administration > repositories settings. If there is green checkmark everything is fine. If not you have to install GIT first, e.g. via apt-get install
Example configuration

To better understand this HowTo I will use the following configuration

  • My owner of redmine is called redmine
  • My redmine main directory is /var/lib/redmine and I will create a subdirectory repos there, where I clone the repositories. So the full path of this directory is /var/lib/redmine/repos/
  • The URL of my repo is git.my-url.com, the name my_repo, so full URL is [email protected]:my_repo

Step 1: Clone the repositories

First we need to clone the repository as a MIRROR (not BARE !) repository. A mirror repository has no workfiles but only the commit information what is all we need for redmine.

We switch to redmine-user and clone the repository into the choosen directory.

sudo -su redmine
cd /var/lib/redmine/repos/
git clone --mirror [email protected]:my_repo my_repo

Now all repository information are on disk, but redmine don't knows anything about that. So in the next step we will change this.

Step 2: Introduce the repository to redmine

Inside redmine we open the "administration > project -> repositories" dialog. You can access this dialog also via "project -> settings -> repositories". There we add a new repository

Type: GIT Main-repository: check this if the cloned repository is you main repository, if not leave it unchecked. Name (redmine intern): I suggest to choose the same name as the repository, e.g. my_repo Path: Absolute path of the repository, e.g. /var/lib/redmine/repos/my_repo

Now redmine knows the repository. If you open the repository-tab inside your project you will see the repository tree, last commits and so on.

Note: When you open the dialog redmine fetchs all changeset the local repository and the redmine database since the last time anyone opend this dialog. Especially opening the dialog for the first time of a large repository may take very long. Don't cancel the progress, just let redmine work until it has finished. Possible Fallacy: When opening the dialog redmine DOESN'T fetch new commits out of GIT! This means that you will never see new commits inside redmine if you don't update the local GIT repository. For that we will write a cronjob in step 3.

Step 3: Adding a cronjob to fetch the GIT-repository

To keep the GIT repository automatically up to date we will add a cronjob. With the --all parameter we define to fetch all branches.

We open the user specified crontab for the user redmine and add a cronjob to fetch all branches every five minutes.

sudo -e -u redmine

and add this line

*/5 * * * * cd /var/lib/redmine/repos/my_repo && git fetch --all

Alternatively we can directly edit the /etc/crontab-file. If we do this we have to add the username of the repository-owner who should execute the commands.

nano /etc/crontab

and add this line

*/5 * * * * redmine cd /var/lib/redmine/repos/my_repo && git fetch --all

NOTE If you clone multiple repositories you have to add a crontab-line for every repository.

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