Steps will reproduce the problem: 1. create a bare & shared repository locally and copy to remote server 2. create a local repository. add and commit some files 3. git push to the remote server $ git push --verbose --thin upload HEAD Pushing to http://user@server/url/.git/ Password: Fetching remote heads... refs/ refs/heads/ refs/tags/ updating 'refs/heads/master' using 'HEAD' from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 0120f45ebfd90501868e990bfbb9f50fb0a8ebae <<<<< Here, a MKCOL http://user@server:80/url/.git/refs/ request is sent. The WebDAV server returns a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. Then, the following message continues: Unable to create branch path http://user@server/url/.git/refs/ Unable to lock remote branch refs/heads/master error: failed to push some refs to 'http://user@server/url/.git/' This is the server: Server: Oracle9iAS/9.0.2.3.0 Oracle HTTP Server (Unix) mod_plsql/9.0.2.6.0b DAV/1.0.3.2.4-0119 (OraDAV enabled) mod_osso/9.0.2.0.0 mod_ossl/9.0.2.0.0 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 mod_perl/1.26 mod_oc4j/3.0 Is MKCOL expected even for existing directory in the remote repository? Is this a WebDAV server problem that 500 is returned? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/http-push-sends-MKCOL-command-to-create-remote-directory-MKCOL-http%3A--user%40server%3A80-url-.git-refs--that-already-exists-tp3445796p3445796.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html