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I set up access to git over apache2 and the git-http-backend as described in http://www.tikalk.com/alm/setup-git-gitweb-git-http-backend-smart-http-ubuntu-1204 . I can pull from the test repository which already exists remotely.

I have however hard time pushing a repository I created locally to the remote server such that a new repository is set up there. I am a beginner with git, so I might be missing something obvious.

I create a test repository like this:

mkdir test2 cd test2 git init . echo blah > foo.txt git add . git commit -m'initial commit'

I try this:

git push http://myserver/git/test2.git fatal: repository 'http://myserver/git/test2.git/' not found

or this:

git push --set-upstream http://myserver/git/test2.git master fatal: repository 'http://myserver/git/test2.git/' not found

Any hint?

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  • Git 'push' will not create new repository on the remote. You must initialize it by git init --bare. See here Commented May 18, 2014 at 2:05
  • In another words, there is way (can be something else than push) to get the repo to the remote without ssh'ing there? I am migrating away from bzr and this is something it trivially supports. Commented May 18, 2014 at 11:18
  • Did you mean git command like bzr init-repo? Commented May 18, 2014 at 13:28
  • I mean something like bzr push https+webdav://myserver/bzr/new-repo which pushes the branch to the new-repo which perhaps does not exist yet. Or to create a remote repo, I was able to do bzr init https+webdav://myserver/bzr/new-repo (running that command locally, creating the repo remotely). Commented May 18, 2014 at 14:26

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You can't instantiate a remote Git repository over the Git protocol.

You can use Gitorious, or a similar web interface, where you can create a remote repository. Git Web was installed in your tutorial but I assume it can't create a repository since you haven't found that feature.

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