Re: Invalid path on new Git installation

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:58:05PM +0100, Marcus wrote:

Can anybody help me with defining a valid path to a Git repo on a new
installation?
I just built Git on a webserver (a VPS so I have root access). When I
try clone or push I get this error:

fatal: '/git/watchsite.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fetch-pack from 'ssh://me@mydomain.com/git/projectname.git' failed.

Why this when I can use wget on this path:
wget mydomain.com/git/projectname.git/file.html
The above successfully downloads the file, so the path is valid, right?

ssh://me@mydomain.com/git/projectname.git means the folder
/git/projectname.git in host mydomain.com

http://mydomain.com/git/projectname.git/file.html means whatever folder
your webserver is mapping /git/projectname.git to. Usually,
/var/www/html/git/projectname.git.

I also did "git init" on the remote repo (not sure if that's necessary?).

What is the correct path on the remote? Note that ssh://host/dir isn't
the same as host:dir (both are acceptable), as the latter means ~me/dir,
while the former means /dir.

You could switch to the me@host:path location, or add a ~/:
ssh://me@host/~/dir

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