On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:41:51 -0800 (PST)
Ray Tayek wrote:
> > hi, i have git version 1.8.4.msysgit.0 installed.
> > if i run this as a daemon, where are the repositories located?
> > (i.e. where do i do a mkdir foo.git; cd foo.git; git init --bare?)
[...]
> doing a push origin master got an acces denied or repository not
> exported. so i added --enable=receive-pack to the deamon invocation.
Are you aware that enabling this mode allows everyone to push
arbitrary data into your repository without any authentication?
Let me repeat: no authentication is supported by git-daemon, and that's
why you have to jump through the hoops to even allow (the usual)
read-only access by this daemon to a repository, and enabling write
access requires a special command-line option.
In other words, this kind of setup is reserved for special cases in a
controlled environment.
> now push origin master says:
> counting objects: 3 done
> writing objects: 100% (3/3)
>
> and then hangs :(
This is a known bug in Git for Windows [1] which turned out to be
incredibly hard to track down. Since no one pushes to git-daemon
anyway, the bug is still not fixed.
It has been discovered that disabling a certain feature known as
"side-band-64k" push protocol extension [2] helps (see comments #1 and
#2 in [1]).
So to help the problem you basically have several options:
1) Host your shared Git repos on a box running an OS "native" to Git,
such as something implementing POSIX (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Darwin etc).
This will make setting up "conventional" server-side Git setup
basically a no-op as a working SSH server is just one package
install away. Setting up Git behind an HTTP server is more
complicated but well documented. You could also opt for using
some front-end to virtualize Git users if SSH is used for providing
access; the most popular is gitolite [9].
IMO, in our brave new world full of cheap virtualization, this is
*the* way to go: just grab an OS [3] and install it in on a
virtualised server. A VPS/VDS is also an option.
2) Continue to use Windows as a hosting platform but stop using
git-daemon. There are guides on setting up a Git server behind
IIS using nothing but bare hands, but special solutions for this
do exist [6], [7].
Another solution is to use gitblit [8] -- it does not use Git for
Windows on the server at all relying instead on a pure Java library
called JGit.
3) Build Git for Windows from the source (it's free software, so it
comes with full source code and a development environment to build
it -- *this* is what really called "msysGit" [4]), having disabled
that side-band-64k feature. I don't know how to disable it for sure,
so have no off-hand solution to this.
4) Attempt to binary-patch Git [5] to disable the offending feature
(on the client *or* the server, not on both).
This actually breaks the push protocol -- the parties will present
a differing names for the same feature and so it won't be negotiated.
IMO, this stinks. And you'll have to repeat patching after
installing a new version.
> git log says: fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'
You failed to tell us where you're running this -- on the client
or on the server?
1. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=457
2. https://github.com/git/git/commit/a886ba2
3. http://www.debian.org
4. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=net+installer
5. http://billauer.co.il/blog/2012/10/git-pull-windows-freeze-receive-pack/
6. http://gitweb.codeplex.com/
7. https://bonobogitserver.codeplex.com/
8. http://gitblit.com/
9. https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/
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