[maemo-developers] git push problem at git.maemo.org

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hi again,

git push works again on git.maemo.org. I don't even want to say what the
problem was... shame on me, but I forgot to turn "DAV on" for the
project repositories. The web server did its job to serve the content as
is, not giving a chance to the webdav module to chew on the requests
from git. What a lame sysadmin, you may say.

Sorry to all who got some bad days because of this. I owe you a beer on
the summit. ;)

Cheers,
ferenc


Ferenc Szekely wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ferenc Szekely wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>>> Ferenc Szekely wrote:
>>>> Apologies for the inconvenience if you and your project are affected.
>>> In the meantime are there any workarounds to this problem?
>>>
>> No workaround as we speak. I took a couple of "problematic" repositories
>> from the server and tried accessing them via WebDAV on a different
>> machine. I can confirm that push works to those repos. I will now check
>> the diff between the two setups and hope to get come clue from that
>> investigation.
>>
> I found the problem regarding git push failures. Unfortunately this is
> related to my attempts fixing a sechole in our gitweb setup a few days ago.
> 
> For those who are interested: git always sends a PROPFIND request first
> when you do a git push (this is over HTTP, remember). The server replies
> with the git.maemo.org "frontpage", which is obviously not the content
> what git would expect.
> 
> Now wondering about a quick fix, so that the repos and gitweb could
> happily live together again.
> 
> -ferenc