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ianckc
ianckc

Reputation: 1716

git / gitosis creating a new repo

I followed the tutorial at http://blog.agdunn.net/?p=277 to setup git and gitosis.

I can clone the gitosis-admin repo edit it and push it to the server. When I look at the files on the server they are the same as my local copies so everything is good there.

The problem comes when I try to create my own repo. In the gitosis.conf file I added the following

[group exampleproject]
writable = myproject
members = ian

Then I did the following on my local machine to create a repo

mkdir myproject
cd myproject

I then created a readme file and commited my changes

git add .
git commit -m 'My first commit of readme file'

Then I added a remote

git remote add myserver git@server_name:/var/git/repositories/myproject.git

Then when I try to push using the following

git push myserver master:refs/heads/master

I get the error messages

fatal: '/var/git/repositories/myproject.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1428

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1326872

Regarding your gitosis command, I suspect you don't need to have the full path for the remote reference for a repo:
In other words, don't:

git remote add myserver git@server_name:/var/git/repositories/myproject.git

But do:

git remote add myserver git@server_name:myproject.git

The gitosis script will pick up the name of the project and will add the path to the root directory which stores all gitosis-managed repository.

The same would apply for a gitolite setup, but with many more features ;)

Upvotes: 2

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