Comments on: Setting up Gitosis with Windows Server 2008

By: LinuxTechie

LinuxTechie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:46:05 +0000

@ TuanHA,

Make sure that you arenot prompted for password, if you are prompted for password, then your public keys are not in place. If you need further help contact me: myself | linuxtechie.net

By: Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows

Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:01:21 +0000

[...] Installing Gitosis on Windows 2008 [...]

By: TuanHa

TuanHa — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:58:58 +0000

I get this error when I tried to clone the gitosis-admin repository on my local machine

$ git clone git@TUANHA:gitosis-admin.git
Initialized empty Git repository in d:/temp/gitosis-admin/.git/
git@TUANHA’s password:
fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’: fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’ does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

but command
$ git clone git@TUANHA:/home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git run well

How to fix it.
Thanks you very much.

By: Rick Tonoli

Rick Tonoli — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:49:14 +0000

Ok the comment dropped off some of the text, that last piece should read:

…I created using ssh-keygen create the key with a user git@*servername* but *servername* had numerics in it.

By: Rick Tonoli

Rick Tonoli — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:46:49 +0000

Something interesting I noticed (and struggled with for a while) was that the gitosis-init command (gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub) fails if the username in the key (id_rsa.pub) has numerics in it, weird. It complains about invalid characters in the username. My particular problem was that the key I created using ssh-keygen created the key with a user git@ but had numerics in it.

By: Frej

Frej — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:51:03 +0000

Thanks for the guide Shannon!

Robert,

I got the same “unable to chdir or not a git archive” problem. I solved it by using the path to the repositories folder.

example:
git clone git@domain.com:/home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:25:56 +0000

Robert,

The git user you create is on the server.
From the error, it looks like you are unable to authenticate to your git server.

Did you copy your client SSH key to the server’s /tmp folder?

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:20:52 +0000

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for the additional information.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:29:29 +0000

Shannon,

I get this error when I tried to clone the gitosis-admin repository on my local machine -

someone@someplace /c/downloads
$ git clone git@warthog.someplace.edu:gitosis-admin.git
Initialized empty Git repository in c:/downloads/gitosis-admin/.git/
git@warthog.someplace.edu‘s password:
fatal: ‘gitosis-admin.git’: unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Is the git user that I create on the client or server machine? I suspect I follow the gitosis blog tutorials on the server, but maybe run the ssh part on the local machine that is my client (git user) – and copy the key generated here to the server /tmp folder? to get the key auth pair to work? Does any of this sound familiar? Every part of this tutorial works great except for trying to clone the gitosis admin repo. Thanks,

By: Pierre MARTIN

Pierre MARTIN — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:25:19 +0000

Hi, and thank you very much for your posts on setting up a local Gir repository. I’m not used at all to use these command lines and your explanations are very helpful!

For the newbies like me, I would like to add an information I did not find immediatly:
“Copy the public key of the user you wish to administer the Gitosis server to /tmp directory.”
-> The original file can be found in “/home/xxxx/.ssh/id_rsa.pub” and has to be copied in “/tmp” (where xxxx is the user name : git for example)

Thanks,
Pierre