Gitosis not updating server configuration after push of configuration changes

Question

I\'ve set up gitosis using the tutorial privided at:

http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

I found that I was unable

Answer 1

I know this is short but you probably just need to make the post hook executable...

sudo chmod 755 [your-path-to-your-repo]/gitosis-admin/hooks/post-update

Answer 2

when I checked the '.gitosis.conf' file located in the home folder of the gitosis user, I found that it was not updated.

That's really weird -- on my gitosis installation, the .gitosis.conf in the "gitosis" user's home directory is a symlink. You might want to check that; perhaps gitosis thinks the repository is somewhere other than where you think it is?

Also, adding a section to your conf file like this:

[gitosis]
loglevel = DEBUG

can help you figure out a lot of problems with gitosis.

Answer 3

I tried to cover with commons error for Gitosis installation and setup

http://jerabi.com/sdionne/blog/2010/09/06/git-repository-server-gitosis-on-win7-troubleshooting/

I hope that can help you

Answer 4

Check the permissions on the post-update hook in the repository. It must be executable, and the published version of gitosis doesn't ensure that.

Answer 5

I found this problem on Ubuntu 9.04. When I looked into it, I found that the post-update hook pointed to /usr/share/python-support/gitosis/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update which no longer existed. I'm sure it came through some updated package.

I looked around on the filesystem and found that if I pointed hooks/post-update to /usr/share/python-support/gitosis/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update it worked just fine.