I have installed gitosis, but i have strange thing when i'm working with repos. In config i have
[gitosis]
[group gitosis-admin]
writable = gitosis-admin
members = me@server me@laptop
[group prj1]
writable = prj1
members = me@laptop
and in /home/git/repositories i have created directory prj1.git with empty git repo.
i can work with gitosis-admin from server and laptop without problems, but when i'm trying to git clone prj1 on my laptop i see
$ git clone git@server:prj1.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/alec/temp/prj1/.git/
fatal: no matching remote head
ok, lets push prj1 from laptop to server:
$ git push origin master:refs/heads/master
ERROR:gitosis.serve.main:Repository read access denied
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Whats wrong?
Would the following, done on your laptop, solve this issue?
Instead of a git clone:
mkdir prj1
cd prj1
git init
touch README
git add .
git commit -m "Added blank readme"
git remote add origin git@server:prj1.git
git push origin master
ebneter adds in the comment:
You might mention that the reason this works is that you can't clone an empty repo.
(As my users regularly discover...
And that reminds the OP question:
... and in
/home/git/repositories
I have created directory prj1.git with empty git repo
which is not ideal right there.
This SO question mentions the issue of cloning an empty repo:
In other words, don't attempt to clone the empty repo, but rather after creating it, push to it a simple repo containing one innocuous file. Then it is no longer empty and can be cloned.
Since then, Chris Johnsen comments:
Any Git later than 1.6.2
(so actually since March 2009)
can “clone” empty repositories.
(scare quotes because it really just amounts normal initialization plus setting up a remote, and creating a tracking configuration for the presumed, eventual master branch).