Comments on How To Install A Public Git Repository On A Debian Server

You need some permission change before you can create directories without sudo. Perhaps a git group would be a good idea as well...

This is a great tutorial.  Or would be if it worked.  As it is .. it doesn't.  Followed instructions on Debian Lenny. 

# git clone git://server/project.git project
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/cache/git/project.git/project/.git/
fatal: Unable to look up server (port 9418) (Name or service not known)
#

You need to change git://server/ to git://localhost/

Hope this helps.

My error.  Works.  I think. 

Still, would be more useful if it said what to once set up.

Thanks great! it work! only your man help me!

[Fri Feb 26 01:39:46 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Fri Feb 26 01:39:46 2010] gitweb.cgi: Can't opendir(/var/cache/git): Permission denied

I keep getting the above error, any ideas?

I kept getting 404 - No projects found even though my $projectroot was correct.  I'm surprised none of the tutorials I found mentions verifying the permissions for the git repositories.

 I navigated to my projectroot folder and used ls -l to view the repository permissions and discovered they had 750.  I changed them to 755 and the error went away and I was able to navigate the repositories just fine.

Another alternative would be to change the group for them to the Apache user, which is www-data on Debian/Ubuntu but other distros may be different.

I hope this helps someone else since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.

I think there is a bug : 

Project will appear in web site has  "project.git/.git".

You can create the repository somewhere, it will create a ".git" directory inside.

 Then copie ".git" to /var/cache/git/ and rename it in "project.git".

In this case unfortunately you can't use "git" command in /var/cache/git/, it requires a ".git" directory.

Found some help here : http://gofedora.com/how-to-install-configure-gitweb/

Thanks man :)

very nice guide

Hi,

 Nice "How to". But I've a 'little' problem, if some guy can help me ... :) :

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[root:/home/www-data/git/cache] #>cd project.git/
[root:/home/www-data/git/cache/project.git] #>touch .git/git-daemon-export-ok
[root:/home/www-data/git/cache/project.git] #>git daemon --base-path=/var/cache/git --detach --syslog --export-all
[root:/home/www-data/git/cache/project.git] #>git clone git://localhost/project.git project
Cloning into project...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
[root:/home/www-data/git/cache/project.git] #>git clone git://213.186.46.210/project.git project
Cloning into project...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

[root:/home/www-data/git/cache/project.git] #>git clone git://213.186.46.210/
Cloning into 213.186.46.210...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Minor error: "sudo cat vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/git" should be "sudo vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/git"

Hmm, it doesn't work at all

Thanks for sharing this knowledge with this utility . this is very important for beginner

Thanks once again 

Git clone works fine but git push doesn't. It throws this error:

git://127.0.0.1:9418/project.git: access denied or repository not exported: /project.git