Git FAQ

Why no git:// support? Are you that allergic to non-80 TCP ports?

Smart http, which is available from 1.6.6 onwards, is the git:// protocol wrapped in an HTTP stream. So there's no real difference between the two, except that HTTP is more accessible and can be proxied and routed more flexibly than the git protocol can.

how to use ??????

I can't use it!

Error: no DAV locking support on remote repo https://

only http:// support not like github git:// ??

@nicolas.alvarez, alex.blewitt, KEWIN2010 - I added a FAQ entry about non-HTTP protocols to clarify those that we can't support.

@alex.blewitt - Smart HTTP is kind of like git:// wrapped over HTTP, but with some important differences. The one that makes it truly incompatible with our production infrastructure is that the git:// negotiation phase is stateful and requires a fully bidirectional socket; in the smart HTTP protocol this is implemented by multiple round-trip stateless HTTP requests (with some tricks to partially reconstruct the server's internal state). I'd be happy to go into more detail, but perhaps this wiki entry is not the place :)

@microcaicai - It sounds like you're using a git version prior to v1.6.6.

What happens to your subversion data if you convert your project to git? I seem to have lost my wiki!!!

@jkridner - I've clarified the FAQ about losing your wiki data, let me know if it's still unclear.

I've converted the wiki for ganeti.googlecode.com together with history, but now http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/w/list shows the same timestamp and author for all wiki pages (the timestamp being the timestamp of the push and the author being the author of the last edit).

Is this a known issue?

Same issue above.

Please provide a full guide for switching from Subversion to Git. I managed it myself, but this should be documented in this Wiki.

I have git repository in my local pc, how can I push

the repository into the google code?

git continues to ask for password even after setting ~/.netrc file as described on "checkout" page or here http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt (step 3).

I also tried curl command as described by link above but for my project

curl --netrc --location -v https://rion4ik@code.google.com/p/qtnote/HEAD

returns 404 Not found

GET /p/qtnote/HEAD HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic somesecretcode_replaced_in_this_example
User-Agent: curl/7.21.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.22
Host: code.google.com
Accept: */*

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:01:37 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: codesite
Content-Length: 11801
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

git version 1.7.6 compiled with curl.

I don't think its a bug in googlecode's git support since nobody else complains but something really wrong.

@shijie8:

git remote add googlecode https://code.google.com/p/myprojectname git push googlecode --all

@rion4ik:

The git client will always ask for your password if you put a username in the URL, even if you have set up .netrc correctly. Try removing "rion4ik@" from the URL. I will add a FAQ entry about this.

It is expected behavior for the /HEAD URL to not work; that URL out of date and refers to the old ("dumb") HTTP protocol, which we do not support. Try this instead:

curl --netrc --location -v https://code.google.com/p/qtnote/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

yeah. that works! thanks!

> for Git and Mercurial projects, the wiki is stored in the separate "wiki" repository.

whats the URL for that separate repo? I tried

git clone (user) @code.google.com/p/(project)/wiki git clone (user) @code.google.com/p/wiki

@dc.pikkle: On your "Source" page, there is a "Repository" dropdown that should contain at least "default" and "wiki." Switching it to "wiki" allows you to browse your wiki repo, and also inclues copy-and-pasteable checkout instructions.

tk;dr git clone https://user@code.google.com/p/project.wiki

How do you delete a git repository? There is jut a disable and reset option.

pixilab: Just disable it. There is a limit on the number of repos you can create in a project, but it's high (50), and if you ask us to raise your limit we generally will.

You may also star this feature request: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4061

I've moved my wiki to the Git wiki repo: http://code.google.com/p/munki/source/browse/?repo=wiki

But the moved pages don't show up in the wiki list: http://code.google.com/p/munki/w/list

Creating a new wiki page via the web interface results in a page that shows up in the list and also in the git repo. How can I get my existing (imported) wiki pages to show up?

@gregneagle: That's  issue 5703 , and should be fixed tomorrow.

@gregneagle: I've manually fixed your wiki. You can edit as much as you like through the web interface, but please don't push from the command line until the above bug is marked as fixed.

Anyone else seeing the problem in  issue 5703 , let me know and I'll fix it.

Thanks - seeing the Wiki docs now.

Nice to see git support finally!

Is there any support for git hooks? For example, our project (ArduPilotMega?) would like to be able to deny non fast forward commits to some branches but not others. To do that with git we need commit hooks.

We also like to be able to control the basic config settings in the repo. How is that done with a git repo hosted on code.google.com?

Finally, do you plan on supporting the types of interfaces that github has? For example, individual users being able to easily 'fork' and send pull requests via a web UI?

Using Subversion, it's possible to access a file directly from an URL. Like, for example, http://gadget-doc-examples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/themes/theme_simple.xml

Is it possible to do the same from Git ? I'd like to retrieve the content (and only the content) of this file: http://code.google.com/p/igoogle-aqua-theme/source/browse/aqua.xml With the above URL I only get its content presented inside an html page.

Thanks for the help.

@tridge60: For various (mostly security-related) reasons, we don't plan to support running arbitrary user-supplied code as hooks. We may look at other ways to do branch-level access control; for example, Gerrit Code Review supports manipulating branch ALCs through a web UI without the need to write hooks.

As for general config settings, we probably won't directly support using a .git/config file, but there are plenty of knobs we can add, again probably in the web UI. What features do you have in mind? (Also feel free to file specific features as requests on the issue tracker--it's hard to keep track of all the comments on this FAQ page :)

We definitely want to improve the workflow for code review and shipping changes between projects, but I don't have any other details on that at this time.

@jplandrain: There is a "view raw file" link on the bottom of the right-hand sidebar on http://code.google.com/p/igoogle-aqua-theme/source/browse/aqua.xml. Raw git files basically use the same URL scheme as for raw git files, except with "git" instead of "svn/trunk".

Hi, Github offers project forking/pull-requests which are very useful features for collaborating and allows other people to create custom versions of the code. Does Google-Code offer any such features?

Related to @jplandrain's question: SVN allows me to add mime types to files so that I can have googlecode serve a html file or an image as content in the user's browser. In this way we can easily serve our html docs from the repository (see http://mdanalysis.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/html/index.html ).

Is something similar possible with the git setup here?

@orbeckst: git has no native support for specifying MIME types; for more details, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3537575/can-git-store-the-mime-type-of-a-file-like-svn-does-for-browsing-html

We do try to do a similar kind of MIME type autodetection that you see in webservers like Apache; if it's consistently messing that up, please file a defect report.

I suppose we could read a custom attribute from your .gitattributes file to set the MIME type, but we don't right now. Again, feel free to file an enhancement request.

hello!

git push origin master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 216 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Scanning pack: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Storing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Processing commits: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Error: internal server error
error: RPC failed; result=18, HTTP code = 200
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

+1, I also have the "RPC failed" error on pushing.

Does the Git storage allow for multiple repositories? E.g. one repository for a library and another repository for an example application based on top of that library?

I cant manage to make it work, I do

git clone http://code.google.com/p/linux-ninja-basics

and it initializes a new git repositorie but it frezes, it never ends it I tried:

git init touch READE git add . git commit -m 'README' git remote add origin http://code.google.com/p/linux-ninja-basics git push origin master

but it doesnt work, I really can't get it to work

@cette: In order to push, you need to use "https" in the URL instead of "http". What is the specific error message you get when you try to push?

The link you provide for git-svn is a Not Found.

Sorry about the broken link; kernel.org has been having some server issues. Fixed.

Where does .netrc go?

i had get an error like that: $ git push --all fatal: http://code.google.com/p/ios5/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? how can i do to fix it?

btw: i just create a new project to work with googlecode's git. but after i create a project and check out the empty git rep into local. Then I add some file in the local and try to push, I get this error.

When I try to push with the following command: git push origin master:origin/remy I get the following error: error: no DAV locking support on https://...

I am using version 1.7.5.4 of git, so I guees I am in a different situation than microcaicai. I am behind a proxy, but I can clone without any issue, so do not suspect this to be the problem. Thanks you to anyone who could help me.

Hi all,

If you're getting the nondescript "https://.../info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server" error message, please try your pushes again. We've recently made some changes to return hopefully much more useful error messages.

Is there any step-by-step guide for migrating from SVN to GIT? I do not really understand the info about the wikis since I created them only through the web interface.

Under Administrator->Source, I clicked "Switch to GIT". I don't have my source checked in yet, but my wikis disappeared. I am not sure what process I need to take to have those available again via the web interface.

Because of that issue, I switched back to SVN. I note that my wikis are back, but they all have been updated to show me and the current time as the "Changed" info.

Thanks for any tips on doing this all via the web interface. If that goes well, I'm then planning on migrating from our in-house CVS repository to the Google GIT repository. I suspect that will be an issue itself since I'd certainly prefer to migrate all the history/versions possible from CVS to GIT.

I converted my project from subversion to git, but the first 'git clone' I do to try to migrate my code fails with the info/refs problem:

$ git clone https://code.google.com/p/instmake Initialized empty Git repository in /ws/gilramir-sjc/prj/instmake/.git/ fatal: https://code.google.com/p/instmake/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

Regarding my git clone failure, I was using git version 1.6.2.4; once I switched to git 1.7.8.3 everything worked fine.

As the instructions say, git version 1.6.6 or above is needed!

Google-Team: Please add the FAQ information that some information (e.g. access-timestamp of a file etc.) will be lost in git (as against svn). Folks will be interested in and write less complains. Thanks.

CVS, SVN, GIT, Mercurial .. bleh.. People should research the advantages and disadvantages of each and decide whether you really need to switch your project to a different source control system. Many do it just because of the latest fad, and if you chase that monkey, you'll be switching every other year. Git has some nice improvements, for instance, BUT they aren't really useful for everyone. Again, take care and make sure you really want to change something that is not broken. Just my two cents.

Can anyone help me to find out the git push size (in bytes) using the pre-receive hook? I want to abort the git push, if the size exceeds my limit.

Wow, it's really difficult to get Git working when using googlecode project hosting! 1. Make sure your git config file looks sth. like this:

["origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ 
url = https://code.google.com/p/projectname/

2. Make sure you created the .netrc (unix) or netrc (windows) file in your user home directory with following content:

machine code.google.com login <login> password <login>

Took me ours too find this out! Regards, Dennis Fischer