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Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:58:51 +0000

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Hosting git repositories on Dreamhost | ArvinderKang.com — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:52:32 +0000

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By: b01

b01 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:57:46 +0000

O.K., newgit runs without errors now. I added the following line to the newgit method (just before the chmod on the update script):

“mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update”

now when I push from my computer to my remote DH account the update script will be run so that I will see my push immediately when I access my repository via web http://git.mydomain.net

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:19:07 +0000

@bo1

You aren’t making it world writeable, just executable (a+x).

If I recall correctly, this is because of how DH handles user (UID) access to these file during a push request

By: b01

b01 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:15:34 +0000

I used your instructions to install git 1.7.1 on dream host, but I didn’t setup my bash to load my local bin folder before the PATH like you suggested:

“PATH=~/packages/bin:$PATH”

So that probably means I’m just using the DH git installed.

Anyway, I read about git-hooks here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/githooks.html

and I now have an idea of what that line does, when I run newgit, everything seems good, so I went to the hooks directory in one of my repositories and noticed that the script “post-update” is still named “post-update.sample.” SO the error was self explanatory. I need to modify the script to rename the update script then chmd a+w. But is it safe to make it writable by all on this script, I don’t even know what it does!?

Thanks for the write-up :)

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:06:29 +0000

@b01

What version of git did you install?

By: b01

b01 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:06:56 +0000

I used the newgit method in my .bashrc file, but when I initialize a new repository I git a failed error message due to this line:

chmod a+x hooks/post-update

message:
chmod: cannot access `hooks/post-update’: No such file or directory

The hooks/post-update dirs are not there. Are they supposed to get made? And why make them world readable?