Is this a bad idea or is there a better way of approaching version control for my whole dedicated server?
My first attempt was git init and git push but I couldn't resolve error:
error: src refspec main does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'main'
I tried several fixes and workarounds from StackOverflow.
So then I tried creating a repo from GitHub.com with just a test file, then cloning it, cd /, git add ., etc.. but I keep running into errors with it too.
fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.
..is what I get after running git clone git#github.com:hero/128GB.git .
Any ideas on what I should do next? If I should continue this path or is there a better approach at version control for a server?
Their is an error I have been having for awhile on ubuntu that is not allowing me to push an existing repository from the command line. this error keeps showing up. How do I fix this.
Thank you
error: chmod on /mnt/e/myproject/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
Is this disk drive NTFS?, if not, please try using sudo.
when I login with root user and go to the working directory (/home/gitproject), I have no issue running commands but when I login to the server with other users I get the following:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
How to resolve this issue?
the repo is not owned by root it is owner by another user and even when I use that user to login I get the same error!
It's hard to know exactly what's wrong here, but here are some advice on how to debug this. git does not find a the structure for a repository where you are, which means that it is unable to find either /home/gitproject/.git or /home/.git or /.git.
This may be because the files are missing or because only root can read them. Check with the users which do not work using the following command:
ls -l /home/gitproject/.git
(and so on).
On a side note, as larks mentioned in a comment, sharing a git repository is going to be a huge pain. Try gitolite or other projects of this kind.
so I solved the issue ...
with root user I ran this command
rm -r .git
and logged in with another user and ran this:
git init
git remote set-url origin URL
It solved the issue. But still not clear what really happened there.
I have the following problem: I try to clone a project in GitLab using the Git command console (Git CMD) and it gives me an error, because it asks me for the permission of an unknown user. It is worth mentioning that the problem occurs with any project that you want to clone from GitLab. It always presents the same error. I attached the error capture to help me please! Regards.
i have a weird issue. Im using TortoiseGIT (Win7) and my repositories are placed on a vritual server (Debian), where im using gitolite and SSH keys.
I can clone the repository to my PC, i can run Fetch, Push, Commit, Sync .. everything, but when trying to Pull the changes from server Pushed by other contributor, the following error appears:
git.exe pull -v --progress "origin"
fatal: 'pull' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-pull is broken?
git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128)
I don't understand, why just the pull command is not working .. thanks for any help.
I can make a clone of the repository, with the contributed changes .. but can not Pull the changes to created repository on my PC.
I encountered this same issue after changing the git Bash executable sh.exe to be always run as administrator (to get round another problem). It then left git unable to access it under certain scenarios and caused various "Maybe git-* is broken?" errors. Perhaps this might help someone...
Uninstalling old Git and reinstalling the latest build fixed this issue for me.
Here's a link to the installers
Link to get installers
My exact error message was
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/libexec/git-core\git-pull: line 304: exec: git-merge: not found
fatal: 'pull' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-pull is broken?
The error message is very much linked to Git, and comes from help.c:
static const char bad_interpreter_advice[] =
N_("'%s' appears to be a git command, but we were not\n"
"able to execute it. Maybe git-%s is broken?");
That is similar to issue 40 (of another GUI, here terminal-ide).
In that case, it was due to the remote Git installation, which was incomplete
(Comments 3 of issue 19)
git-merge was also missing from install, can be fixed with
$> ln -s git git-merge
in system/bin/
The resolution might not be exactly the same in your case, but it could be related to a faulty Git installation.
I see that you're able to run "git fetch". If you can also run "git merge", running the sequence "git fetch" followed by "git merge" will accomplish the same thing as "git pull".
Source:
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull