On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 01:42 +1000, Tim Guirgies wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been trying to sort this out for a couple of days now, but have > gotten absolutely nowhere. > > For some reason, a few days ago, gitosis just stopped liking me, and I > was unable to push or fetch from my gitosis server, getting the error > message 'fatal: x does not appear to be a git repo'. > > So, I decided to remove gitosis and start again. Following this [1] > guide, this is what I did/got: <snip> > $ git clone gitosis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:gitosis-admin > Cloning into gitosis-admin... > gitosis@localhost's password: > > But of course, it shouldn't be asking me for a password, and nothing I > type will work anyway, as it's a disabled password. > > I've tried it a few times, completely purging the gitosis user and its > home directory, but with the same results. Has anybody had similar > experiences? Or does somebody know some magic trick to get gitosis > working? Did I miss a step? > [1] http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way Hi Tim, You'll notice that the year on that is 2007. I seem to recall the lack of support factor is [a large part of] why Sitaram Chamarty gave the world Gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ). You may still be able to find some help with Gitosis, but I'd not risk blacking out due to holding my breath too long if I were you. -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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