I have a local repository on my host machine. I need to clone this repo from the host machine to a vm running debian. Folders are shared, files are accessible.
But git seems to set different permission for different parts of the repo.
So while most files have my windows user set to Full control, the individual files in ./.git/objects//* have just the SYSTEM/Admin/Administrator permissions and not my windows user. Mind you, the folders in ./.git/objects/* have my windows user set, but the files within not.
Because of this git clone fails for these files. Is there a way to tell git to add my windows user to any file it creates?
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I am a relatively new/light GIT user. I use a local git repository to backup my code and I have not setup a remote repository on github.com or any other remote repository hosting system. I am working on Windows 10 & Windows 11 machines.
I created a local git repository using git init which created a .git folder under my project directory. I moved the .git folder so created to a USB thumb drive (D:) and renamed it myrepo. In my project directory I created a .git file with the setting gitdir: D:/myrepo. My though process was in case my C: drive fails I will have my local repository safe on the USB thumb drive as I have not setup a remote repository. All worked well with this setup.
Now I have a new machine (Windows 11). I copied my project code to the new machine and plugged in the USB thumb drive (D:). However when I execute any git commands I get an error -- fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository..... After some research I found out that due to a recent git security vulnerability an update to git causes it to check for repository ownership before executing commands.
One easy solution is to add a safe.directory setting git config --global -add safe.directory <project directory>. But I am trying to get to the bottom of this. ON WINDOWS PLATFORM - How does git know the owner of the local repository? As mentioned the local repository is on a USB thumb drive which is a FAT32 partition and does not have any kind of file ownership. So how does git know the repository was created by some other user? Also is there a way to change the ownership of the git local repository so that I don't have to use the safe.directory setting.
Thank you in advance for any help the community can offer.
I am trying to pull the repo from my bitbucket repository. However when I do this I get the following error.
Could not create directory '/f/.ssh' (No such file or directory).
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/f/.ssh/known_hosts)
I see that git is trying to access my /f/ drive, however because it is a network drive the contents can change. I have a /c/ drive that has an .ssh folder in it but I cannot get git to recognize that drive instead of defaulting to the /f/ drive.
I am running git bash in my C drive. And I have tried reinstalling git with my /f/ drive disconnected.
How can I get git to see my users/ssh folder?
Check your environment variables (set) in case a GIt_SSH or GIT_SSH_COMMAND would indicate a private key in /f/....
Similarly, check the output, from your local repository folder, of git config -l --show-scope --show-origin, for anything SSH related.
Those are the two sources of settings which could explain why Git is not using $HOME/.ssh for its SSH operations.
I get this error when configuring git repo in a new jenkins project:
Failed to connect to repository : Error performing command: ls-remote -h file:///c:\Dev\git\rx HEAD
I have a local git repo on my windows machine and cloning the same path from command prompt works on the same machine. I don't know what could be the problem (git.exe is on system path)
Windows installs Jenkins as a service. But it runs the Jenkins service under different user permissions that don't have access to GIT. You can follow this link to find the user that Jenkins runs under. http://antagonisticpleiotropy.blogspot.com/2012/08/running-jenkins-in-windows-with-regular.html
For example. My local user name on my windows is "nathandrewsire", exclude the quotes. Open windows services manager (either cmd and c:\services.msc, OR use windows key + R). Enable Log On > This account:. Then type in .\username (e.g. .\nathandrewsire). Then restart the service and you will have access to GIT from Jenkins builds.
I also found a snippet for windows shell command that will output the user to verify it.
echo %PATH%
echo %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%
http://antagonisticpleiotropy.blogspot.com/2012/08/running-jenkins-in-windows-with-regular.html
Linux
If you're using Linux, this error can also be caused from not enabling share on your Git repo. Linux jenkins user won't be able to access Git report under another user unless....
git --bare init --shared=group
Also, your jenkins user and Git repo user must belong to the same group for file permission access. There's other alternatives to that like messing with umasks and ACL's but setting up a linux group for your two users is the easiest way.
Make sure NOT TO OVERWRITE your Git repo with the bare init command. If you already have a Git repo, you'll need to setup/move to a new one with the shared option. I didn't see a way to convert existing repos to shared because I am guessing the files would all need to be updated?
NOTE***
I used VMWare Workstation shared folders to build on a windows guest. Jenkins needs the following format when entering the Git repo.
//vmware-host/Shared Folders/vm-share/ridcyDevelopment.git/
Unable to get Jenkins and Git to play nice
The given:
A mac with my work folder set up as Git repository.
A network drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home, if that helps).
The task:
Set up the specific folder on my network drive as a place where a backup of my repository can be stored.
What I tried:
Setting up the location through Volumes path as a Remote (via Add Remote in Git GUI) - returned with:
fatal: GIT_WORK_TREE (or --work-tree=<directory>) is not allowed without specifying GIT_DIR (or --git-dir=<directory>
Then, I tried
git --git-dir=Volumes/xxxxxxx/GoFlex_Home/Personal/xxxxxxxx
in the terminal, and though it did not turn up with an error, it does not appear to be of result, as another try to add remote ended with the same error as above.
After that, I started to have doubts if specifying the path to network drive through Volumes and/or trying to add it as remote are the right things to do to solve the task. Maybe there are other ways to accomplish the goal that I am not yet aware of?
I assume you get these errors because nothing exist yet in the network share. A remote must point to an existing repository, so you first have to clone it: in the original repo do:
git clone --bare . /Volumes/xxxxxxx/GoFlex_Home/Personal/xxxxxxxx
This will copy your repository data to the network folder.
Then you can add it as a remote:
git remote add --mirror=push backup /Volumes/xxxxxxx/GoFlex_Home/Personal/xxxxxxxx
You will be able to synchronize both with:
git push backup
I have this git repo "c:/xampp/htdocs/**" in my main PC and its IP address is 192.168.0.6. Now I want to git clone this repo from ubuntu-server which running on a Vmware Player in my main PC.
I did
git clone \\192.168.0.6\c:\xampp\htdocs\****
and
git clone //192.168.0.6/c:/xampp/htdocs/****
from ubuntu-server and neither worked.
fatal: could not create work tree dir '****'.: Permission denied
What did I wrong?
what should I do?
You should use the command git daemon to host your repo, like this:
In your computer that will act as a server:
git daemon --base-path=<path_to_folder_containing_project_folder> --export-all
(please note that path_to_folder_containing_project is the folder containing your projects folders, it will provide all projects under that folder)
In your client:
git clone git://<local ip>/<project name>
The cloned repo will have its origin pointing to the server in your LAN, so you may want to use git remote set-url origin to point it to the original origin.
You may want to run git daemon with the --verbose option to get more details in case you run into problems.
Make sure that your c:/xampp/htdocs folder (or sub folders of it) is shared in windows, so you can navigate on the network by this address:
\\192.168.0.6\htdocs
Then you clone by using file:////. Note that there are four slashes:
git clone file:////192.168.0.6/htdocs/somerepo.git
To access the repo, you must either share it on 192.168.0.6 or must be the same domain user as the one that owns the file on 192.168.0.6.
If you share the directory on 192.168.0.6 (e.g. with share name myrepo), you access it with //192.168.0.6/myrepo.
If you are logged in on your box with a user accout that is known on 192.168.0.6, you could try accessing the repo through the administrative shares:
//192.168.0.6/c$/xampp/htdocs/...
Always use forward slashes.
Another alternative would be using SSH to access the remote machine.
Using explorer (smb) to mount the remote repository as a network share is the easiest way. I'm not entirely sure, but I think you paths might be wrong. Try file:///192.168.0.6\c:\xampp... instead.
There are two things that might have gone wrong for you:
You don't have read permission on the remote repository
You don't have write permission in the location you want to create your repository ( the current working directory or the directory you specify as second argument to git clone)
And also check if your samba server works for normal file access.
To make git repo on Windows local network you'd need to do the following:
Create new repo
git init --bare projectName.git
Share this folder (projectName.git) with the users you need
Find your PC ip with ipconfig command (e.g. 192.168.2.101)
Run this command from some user's machine
git clone //192.168.2.101/projectName.git
Note: open \\192.168.2.101 in finder to see the correct path to the projectName.git (e.g. //192.168.2.101/some/path/projectName.git)
I recently ran into this error while trying to clone a repository in a remote pc to a local pc within the same LAN network.
The solution was to first make sure the drive location in the remote pc had the correct access rights for the local PC(Read/Write-which can be set using windows sharing options)
Copy the path of the remote repository. In your local pc paste the path in a windows explorer window. Then copy its directory address and paste it into any browser.
Now you should get a link with the hostname and the correct cloning URL format.
Use this link to clone the repository in the local pc.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
"I have a few different computers that I use at home and I wanted to set up GIT that I can access my code from any of them. It took me a bit because I was too used to working with a client-server model where I designate one machine as the "server" that holds the repository and everything else was a client. Instead, GIT seems to operate more like a merge tool and every local copy is its own "master." Once I understood that, it turns out that setting up GIT is very simple and just needs GIT itself and SSH".
To read more you can check this link:
http://blog.lazyhacker.com/2010/04/setting-up-git-for-home-network.html