I try to clone a repo from a brand new Windows Install with wsl (Ubuntu 20.04).
What I did : generate SSH key and add public key to both github and framagit.
Tried
ssh -i -T git#github.com
And
ssh -i -T git#framagit.org
Both of them saied "Hello my pseudo, you're authentified"
But when I try to clone I have the following :
Without sudo :
Cloning into 'testaaa'...
error: chmod on /mnt/d/dev/dev/testaaa/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'
With sudo :
Cloning into 'testaaa'...
ssh: connect to host framagit.org port 22: Network is unreachable
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
What can I do to solve my issue?
You can fix this by following this guide. Summary below.
From a WSL prompt:
sudo vim /etc/wsl.conf
Add these lines:
[automount]
options = "metadata"
Save the file, shutdown wsl from a PowerShell prompt:
wsl --shutdown
Re-open a wsl terminal. You should see files owned by your user now instead of root. You can now git clone, chmod, chown etc.
You don't want to use sudo here, and in general there's no reason to need it with Git unless the repository you're working with is owned specifically by root.
The problem you're seeing is that you're using a Linux Git, which expects standard Unix permissions to work, on a file system (NTFS) that does not support them. Git will try to set the permissions appropriately when it rewrites the lock file which it will rename into places as the config file, but it can't do so, and it fails. Git for Windows doesn't have this problem because it maps these permissions differently from WSL, which just always returns an error.
You can try a couple of things:
Just clone the repository under WSL and not under a Windows drive. This is guaranteed to work, and should be fine.
Clone the repository somewhere under WSL and move it into a Windows drive, either setting the config options manually for Windows or trying git init again in the repository after cloning.
Run git init on the Windows drive and then do a git remote add origin YOUR-REMOTE and a git pull origin master (or whatever your branch is called).
It's possible that the last one may not work any better than what you have now, since git init may fail the same way.
Recently master branch for Google repo tool has been updated to support Windows OS. It is clear from commit logs : https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+log
I am able to run basic commands like repo init and repo sync using repo tool on Windows (which makes use of MinGW Git on Windows). In my work I need to create a local mirror of a repository and then use it. repo tool works fine to create mirror repository.
Here are commands used to create mirror repository on local drive on Windows OS.
$ repo.cmd init -u <URL> -b <branch_name> -m <manifest_file_name> --mirror --no-repo-verify
$ repo.cmd sync --no-tags
--no-repo-verify is used to forcefully use master branch of repo tool.
The above commands create the mirror in local drive C:\git-repo\test\mirror-testing\mirror
But when I refer the above mirror to sync in other drive then it shows error.
Command:
$ repo.cmd init -u <URL> -b <Branch_name> -m <manifest_file_name> --reference="C:\git-repo\test\mirror-testing\mirror" --no-repo-verify
Error:
error: object directory C:/git-repo/test/mirror-testing/mirror/project/manifest.git/objects? does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
The above command creates alternates file in C:/git-repo/test/mirror-testing/mirror/project/manifest.git/objects/info/ directory and that file contains below path:
C:\git-repo\test\mirror-testing\mirror\project/manifest.git\objects
I have tried other formats to provide reference value:
Git format: "/C/git-repo/test/mirror-testing/mirror"
Cygwin format: "/cygdrive/c/git-repo/test/mirror-testing/mirror"
Using above formats in reference does not create alternates file in objects directory.
repo init time in all above cases simply suggests that mirror is not referred and init is done from network.
When I repeat the same test with Cygwin Git + Google repo tool (stable branch) then I do not see any error and repo init time and sync time is very less compared to the mirror init and sync time, which simply suggests that mirror is referred.
repo.cmd is a batch file wrapper to invoke repo tool with python.
repo.cmd file contains single line
#call python %~dp0\repo %*
I am using Cygwin terminal in Windows 7 to run these commands.
To be clear repo init and repo sync shows error while referring to mirror but it completes successfully by syncing from outside network. The issue is that mirror is not referred.
Has anyone used Google repo on Windows for creating mirror and syncing in other drive using as reference?
I have tested Google repo tool master branch with MinGW Git on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
repo init and repo sync work on both OS.
Even creating the local mirror using --mirror is working, but referring that local mirror to sync in other drive does not work and displays error: "object directory not found".
To be clear using --reference with local mirror shows error, but it eventually uses the network and ignores the local mirror. Ultimately the command completes successfully, but it does not make the use of local mirror. I do not see any workaround for this on Windows for now.
Meanwhile Windows 10 supports Linux bash natively without using any VM.
WSL, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, is a free, optional feature of Windows 10 that allows Linux programs to run on Windows. It provides you with a Windows version of the bash shell and a compatibility layer that permits many Linux programs to run natively on your Windows machine. Using this option you can replace Cygwin Git with Linux Git.
I have tested repo tool on Linux Bash (with Ubuntu distribution installed) for repo init, sync, mirror and reference commands and it works. In fact we use Linux bash so simply Goole repo stable branch works, you do not need to use the master branch to make it work.
I am tasked to set up a central GIT repo internally for my team.
I'm working on getting this setup on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. To the best of my knowledge I've set this up correctly.
I have been following this tutorial but they use CopSSH which isn't free anymore so instead I installed Windows OpenSSH here: Install-Win32-OpenSSH.
On our windows server I've installed and configured the Windows OpenSSH along with GIT. Made the appropriate changes with regards to the environment variables and references needed.
On my local system (also windows) I've installed Putty and generated my public and private keys. The public key has been copied to the server and placed in the correct file. Using putty, I have verified my public/private key authentication is working.
On the server I created a git bare repository in the C: drive like so:
cd C:\
mkdir testing.git
git init --bare testing.git
I installed GIT on my local machine and run the command:
git clone ssh://name#host:port/testing.git
I always end up with the output:
Cloning into 'testing'...
fatal: ''/testing.git'' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
I've tried different variations of this command with the same results and moving the testing.git file to the user home directory (C:\Users\name):
git clone ssh://name#host:port/c/testing.git
git clone ssh://name#host:port/~/testing.git
I've messed with permissions to explicitly give permissions for this user to access that directory.
It seems as though, maybe the git clone command cannot find the folder on the remote server. I started thinking that the SSH server itself needed to be running in a unix like environment like cygwin. Is this my issue? I've seen tutorials/walkthroughs of installing cygwin with openssh and this would be my next attempt.
Thanks for any help!
EDIT:
So I went ahead and installed Bitvise with their 30 day trial (to try) and everything works but this is only for 30 days. So this must mean that there is some set up issue with the Windows OpenSSH that I have?
I have a seen a lot of posts related to the error I am getting but can't find anything that seems like a potential fix I would like to try without getting feedback from some people who know better.
The Setup: I recently built a Windows 7 PC and installed Apache, PHP and MySQL. Everything is working great with my setup and I opened the server up to other devices on the LAN. When I go to a browser and navigate to IPADDRESS:PORT (Installed Apache to listen on a custom port to avoid potential conflicts (Skype, future IIS install?, etc) I get my htdocs index.php page. Great so far.
The last thing I wanted to do was setup Git so that I can do work for my server on my Macbook Pro and push changes to the server. To get this up and running I installed msysgit on my server and was able to create a Git repository for a Media directory I created at the root of my server. When I open this directory up in Explorer I can see the .git directory. The next thing I did was install OpenSSH on the server and I got that up and running. I also changed the default home directory of an SSH connection to the htdocs folder of my Apache server.
Now when I move over to my Macbook pro to test the setup and I am getting problems.
SSH seems to be functioning as expected. When I am on my laptop and run ssh USERNAME#IPADDRESS I get the message to enter my password, I enter my login password and awesome I am in the shell of my server at the htdocs directory.
Git does not seem to be functioning as easily though. I have Git on my Macbook Pro and was able to create a repository in a local directory no problem. When I navigate to a new directory in Terminal that I would like to work with the Media folder project I created on the server and run the following Git commands:
git clone USERNAME#IPADDRESS:/Media
git clone USERNAME#IPADDRESS:\Media
git clone USERNAME#IPADDRESS:/Media.git
git clone USERNAME#IPADDRESS:/Media/.git
etc
(Not sure what exact command I'm supposed to be running. Do I need .git at the end of this command? I see a hidden .git directory in the Media directory but I don't see a Media.git file.)
I get the following error:
Received disconnect from IPADDRESS: 2: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Based on my searching I can't tell if this error is coming from my client (Macbook Pro) or server. I read that it could be a threading limit set on my Macbook so I entered the following commands and upped my maxprocperuid:
sudo sysctl -a|grep maxprocperuid (which outputted 709)
sudo sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=3000 (upped it to ridiculous number to see if it was the problem)
But I am still getting the error when trying to clone the repository.
If you've gotten to the end of this thanks, just trying to provide as much info as possible and any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks.
Try uninstalling OpenSSH and then installing WinSSHD again. Check out this link which suggests the same.
Also, this question might be of some help to you while you are at it.
Git doesn't use ssh by default so you have to specify it when cloning
git clone ssh://[username]#[ip-address]:[port][/path/to/repo]
So I thought I had finally got everything setup on Windows ... then ran into this issue.
Current setup
URL: ssh://user#host:port/myapp.git
Already run Putty - and can connect using valid .ppk keys through the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys direct. In Git and TortoiseGIT - I set both to use "plink.exe".
Putty works fine - no issues - but when I run that URL into bash I get for a git clone (url)
fatal: the remote end hung up expectedly
In a cygwin bash terminal - running "ssh user#host" - works no probs at all.
Anyone suggest anything?
I found out that using ssh.exe from the Git package works every time, as opposed to the ssh that comes with cygwin (the default).
Using this exported variable seems to help; it's slower (2x or more) but it's more stable. Take it as another workaround.
$ export GIT_SSH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Git/bin/ssh.exe
FYI:
This version of Msysgit comes with OpenSSH 4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [works]
Cygwin's SSH is OpenSSH 5.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8n. [doesn't work]
I had the same problem with plink for git under windows.
On run of plink.exe -v xxx#host.com it started to show
Pageant is running. Requesting keys.
Pageant has 1 SSH-2 keys
login as: <<< trouble
Instead of
Pageant is running. Requesting keys.
Pageant has 1 SSH-2 keys
Using user "xxx"
To resolve this problem I cleaned up the putty registry records and sessions by
putty.exe -cleanup
After that plink starts afresh and asks to trust and store the host again and it is getting connected with no problem !
Try following steps, maybe something will give you a hint on your problem:
1. Run putty and after setting up server name/user name/keys etc. save those settings.
2. Run plink.exe or plinkw.exe like plink.exe user_name#server, (it'll throw some info at you) just to see if plink can connect to the server.
3. Check again that git knows that it should use plink, I'd say with all VCSs, that's the problem people have most often, apart from their keys not being set up properly.
Normally by now most of your ssh problems would be revealed. Now just fix them. :)
Update:
I think the problem you have is caused by several gits you've got installed. For the msysgit and cygwin git you'd need to set the GIT_SSH variable. That's done via either 'set GIT_SSH=c:\path\putty\plink.exe' or 'export GIT_SSH=/your/path/putty/putty.exe' respectively. If you're also using tortoise git, you'd need to locate 'properties' (or is it settings?) in it's menu, and set the ssh client there.
Apart from all that, when specifying git clone URL, use your login name and the server name in there, e.g. 'git clone ssh://user#server/your/path/repo.git User and server names should be used by plink, and plink should be able to connect to the server with those arguments, when all of those requirements are met, you'll be all set.
Good luck.
If you want to try the cygwin openssh 5.4p1-1, which does seem to work for this, unlike 5.5 or 5.6, you can use the cygwin time machine mirrors. Start setup.exe with -X and add a mirror Url, such as:
ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2010/05/20/230133
Be careful not to install too much, i.e. base packages, from an older mirror than the rest of your install.
We had same problem and here is solution how we solved the problem:
at first we got:
zajdan#cyberFuture:~$ git clone ssh://nette#19X.16X.14X.7X/~repos/erotika.git/ erotika
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/zajdan/erotika/.git/
Password:
fatal: '/repos/erotika.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
zajdan#cyberFuture:~$
solution:
zajdan#cyberFuture:~$ git clone ssh://nette#19X.16X.14X.7X/~/repos/erotika.git/ erotika
after tilde there must be a slash!
I have exactly the same issue.
I don't use Putty (just Cygwin).
I use Windows 7 Ultimate (fully patched as of this moment).
I just installed Cygwin yesterday.
I made sure binary mounts were being used.
If I copy a git repo to the machine (via samba mount), I can clone it, but when I "git diff" after the clone, there are a bunch of "different" files with no diffs. After a "git status" there was no output from "git diff". It seems like a newline thing, but I can't figure out how that would be happening. (I have igncr in SHELLOPTS, but removing that doesn't fix it.)
I'm completely stumped.
Check the openssh version you're using in CygWin. Version 5.5p1-1 (which is the latest at this time) gave me the same error. Downgrading to 5.4p1-1 fixed the problem.
Another solution would be to use putty/plink instead of openssh.
For more details, see this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin#cygwin.com/msg103752.html
I get message: "remote end gung-up, unexpected EOFs, index-pack failed" while cloning git repo but was able to workaround this issue with copssh http://sourceforge.net/projects/sereds/files/Copssh
The root cause is Cygwin openssh package.
I removed original openssh from Cygwin, installed copssh and set GIT_SSH variable to point copssh binaries. After this I simply added copssh binaries in the PATH and now I'm using copssh instead of openssh - there is no difference.
Everything works fine and issue does not appear any more.
The other solution is to use mSysGit package.
I believe the real problem is that cygwin's ssh looks for .ssh in /home/name/.ssh and mingw's git ssh looks for .ssh in c:/user/name/.ssh
Chances are your keys are in one and only one of these directories.
You can trying telling cygwin's .ssh to use a different identity file using the -i switch, or move the keys into both directories, or create an ssh config file in /home/name/.ssh/config.
I created a config that contains:
Host github.com
User jerryasher
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile c:/Users/jerry/.ssh/id_rsa
And given that I can use either the mingw git from git bash or cygwin's git from an rxvt to interact with github.
To correct this issue, run "plink -agent github.com"
Press y when prompted to cache the key. Login as git. You'll automatically be disconnected. And it sould work.
Source: http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2009/05/06/git-ssh-putty-github-unfuddle-the-kitchen-sink.aspx
Try to use absolute path to repo in a URL, that worked for me.
Instead of:
git ssh://user#host:port/myapp.git
Write:
git ssh://user#host:port//home/user/repo/myapp.git
Notice the double slash!