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Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:43:58 +0000

This guide is excellent. I’ve used it a few times now—Thanks a lot!

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:51:53 +0000

Hello. I completed my installation following instructions from here and various other places on the net. Rather than putting my repository in http://domain.com/git I decided to use a subdomain, http://git.domain.com. This works fine when cloning and push and pulling using the FULL address i.e.
git clone ssh://me@server.dreamhost.com/home/me/git.domain.com/. However, I cannot access the subdomain directly from ssh. Example, the following fail,
git clone ssh://me@git.domain.com/.

Which is a shame because that the reason I wanted to use a subdomain! Do you have any ideas on what I need to do? For example, I have created this subdomain in the Dreamhost control panels but I have not setup any mirrors of forwarding? Perhaps I need to do this?

Regards,

Comment on Gutsy Nvidia Twinview window placement by HerbCSO

HerbCSO — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:07:49 +0000

Thanks, this worked great for me in Hardy Heron as well (8.04.1 on a Dell Latitude D620 with NVidia Quadro NVS 110M).

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Per Velschow

Per Velschow — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:45:36 +0000

Thanks for this guide - and for keeping it updated. I just noticed that git was already installed on my Dreamhost server. It’s version 1.5.4.1. I tried your instructions without building git myself… and it worked fine. So people may want to check if git is already installed.

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by david

david — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:46:26 +0000

Thanks. I’ll fix it.

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:39:42 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial! Good stuff, however line 5 of the first block of shell instructions wasn’t correct for me (when copying/pasting). You have:

cd git-1.5.4.rc.tar.gz

but the archive decompresses to “git-1.5.4.rc4″ as the directory name, meaning the command should be:

cd git-1.5.4.rc4

Thanks so much :)

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Hans Czajkowski

Hans Czajkowski — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:57:50 +0000

Got this error:
bash: git-receive-pack: command not found
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

After a bit of searching, I found this at
http://www.bluestatic.org/blog/2007/08/01/git-public-push-ing/ :

So I’ve been using git locally for a few days now, and I decided it would be a good idea to try push-ing it to bluestatic.org to make sure that public repositories will actually work! After many, many failed attempts all I could get was this cryptic message:

bash: git-receive-pack: command not found
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: failed to push to [removed]

And then, by chance, and after a good 20 minutes of searching, I found this perfect answer on Google:

Many installations of sshd do not invoke your shell as the login shell when you directly run programs; what this means is that if your login shell is bash, only .bashrc is read and not .bash_profile. As a workaround, make sure .bashrc sets up $PATH so that you can run git-receive-pack program.

So I solved this error by simply creating a .bashrc file with this in it:

export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

I thought I’d just write about this in hopes of helping others out.

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by david

david — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:51:45 +0000

Jim — that sounds like an issue with the git client. If you’re trying with the version you compiled as per the instructions, it excludes the CURL library, so some of the normal client functionality isn’t available. These instructions just get the server working in a minimal way. You’ll need a fully-functional client elsewhere to be able to push via ssh.

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Brian Zimmer

Brian Zimmer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:34:23 +0000

Perfect, thanks.

Comment on Hosting a git repository on dreamhost by Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:22:15 +0000

I get

fatal: I don’t handle protocol ‘ ssh’

when trying to push for the first time. Any ideas? Thanks!