How to create Git repository and avoid - "404 The entry or revision was not found in the repository."

Enviroment setup overview¶

From Redmine information tab:

Environment:
  Redmine version                2.3.2.stable
  Ruby version                   1.8.7-p352 (2011-06-30) [x86_64-linux]
  Rails version                  3.2.13
  Environment                    production
  Database adapter               Mysql2
Redmine plugins:
  no plugin installed

From shell:

git --version

git version 1.7.1

httpd -v

Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Server built:   Aug 13 2013 10:51:17

apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep passenger

passenger_module (shared)

Action taken¶

1st STEP: Git enabled in redmine settings:¶

cat $(locate production.log)

Started POST "/settings/edit?tab=repositories" for 10.30.10.129 at Fri Jan 24 13:45:56 +0100 2014
Processing by SettingsController#edit as HTML
  Parameters: {"settings"=>{"repository_log_display_limit"=>"100", "commit_logtime_enabled"=>"0", "sys_api_enabled"=>"0", "commit_fix_done_ratio"=>"100", "commit_ref_keywords"=>"refs,references,IssueID", "autofetch_changesets"=>"1", "commit_cross_project_ref"=>"0", "enabled_scm"=>["", "Git", "Filesystem"], "commit_fix_keywords"=>"fixes,closes", "commit_fix_status_id"=>"0"}, "tab"=>"repositories", "commit"=>"Save", "utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"MvVS4Ri0gTxkckIfbXHZy0Gd/Cw0Z3gqye/hsEn1aNE="}
  Current user: admin (id=1)
Redirected to http://10.31.3.55/settings?tab=repositories
Completed 302 Found in 78ms (ActiveRecord: 13.0ms)
Started GET "/settings?tab=repositories" for 10.30.10.129 at Fri Jan 24 13:45:57 +0100 2014
Processing by SettingsController#index as HTML
  Parameters: {"tab"=>"repositories"}
Settings cache cleared.
  Current user: admin (id=1)
  Rendered settings/_general.html.erb (176.1ms)
  Rendered settings/_display.html.erb (21.1ms)
  Rendered settings/_authentication.html.erb (20.0ms)
  Rendered settings/_projects.html.erb (15.2ms)
  Rendered queries/_columns.html.erb (6.4ms)
  Rendered settings/_issues.html.erb (109.7ms)
  Rendered settings/_notifications.html.erb (0.2ms)
  Rendered settings/_mail_handler.html.erb (6.2ms)
  Rendered settings/_repositories.html.erb (26.2ms)
  Rendered common/_tabs.html.erb (384.5ms)
  Rendered settings/edit.html.erb within layouts/admin (385.4ms)
  Rendered admin/_menu.html.erb (5.7ms)
  Rendered layouts/base.html.erb (96.6ms)
Completed 200 OK in 498ms (Views: 466.7ms | ActiveRecord: 23.8ms)

2nd STEP: Created git repository direcotry and given user rights¶

Check for redmine user by looking for running process

ps auxf | grep -A 8 -e "apache2 -k star[t]" -e redmin[e]

apache    7296  0.5  6.3 289384 131500 ?       Sl   12:42   0:28 Passenger RackApp: /var/www/html/redmine 

Check for redmine user by looking for log file

ls -l $(locate production.log)

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1417 Jan 24 13:56 /var/www/html/redmine/log/production.log

mkdir -p /git/test.git
chown apache:apache /git/test.git
ls -ald  /git/test.git

drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jan 24 13:47 /git/test.git

At this point, I am not sure do I have also create local repository folder (does Redmine latter create repository?) or to create repository.

3rd STEP: Create repository using Redmine¶

after pressing create:

cat $(locate production.log)

Started POST "/projects/hops-pis/repositories" for 10.30.10.129 at Fri Jan 24 13:49:31 +0100 2014
Processing by RepositoriesController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "repository"=>{"extra_report_last_commit"=>"0", "url"=>"/git/test.git", "identifier"=>"test", "is_default"=>"1", "path_encoding"=>""}, "utf8"=>"✓", "repository_scm"=>"Git", "project_id"=>"hops-pis", "authenticity_token"=>"MvVS4Ri0gTxkckIfbXHZy0Gd/Cw0Z3gqye/hsEn1aNE="}
  Current user: admin (id=1)
Redirected to http://10.31.3.55/projects/hops-pis/settings/repositories
Completed 302 Found in 159ms (ActiveRecord: 4.2ms)
Started GET "/projects/hops-pis/settings/repositories" for 10.30.10.129 at Fri Jan 24 13:49:31 +0100 2014
Processing by ProjectsController#settings as HTML
  Parameters: {"tab"=>"repositories", "id"=>"hops-pis"}
  Current user: admin (id=1)
  Rendered projects/_form.html.erb (18.9ms)
  Rendered projects/_edit.html.erb (20.8ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_modules.html.erb (4.6ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_members.html.erb (13.9ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_versions.html.erb (5.2ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_issue_categories.html.erb (86.1ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_wiki.html.erb (2.4ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_repositories.html.erb (6.6ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_boards.html.erb (2.5ms)
  Rendered projects/settings/_activities.html.erb (13.3ms)
  Rendered common/_tabs.html.erb (163.1ms)
  Rendered projects/settings.html.erb within layouts/base (164.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 206ms (Views: 180.8ms | ActiveRecord: 11.7ms)

4th STEP: Entering repository¶

404
The entry or revision was not found in the repository.

cat $(locate production.log)

Started GET "/projects/hops-pis/repository" for 10.30.10.129 at Fri Jan 24 13:50:10 +0100 2014
Processing by RepositoriesController#show as HTML
  Parameters: {"id"=>"hops-pis"}
  Current user: admin (id=1)
  Rendered common/error.html.erb within layouts/base (0.5ms)
Completed 404 Not Found in 248ms (Views: 58.5ms | ActiveRecord: 7.2ms)

Please help. Thanx.¶

I alredy read http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineRepositories and various posts on this topic, stil without any sucess in resolving problem.

Problem resolved, I havent created and pushed anything to my repository.

mkdir -p /var/test.git
chown apache:apache /var/test.git/
cd /var/test.git/
git init --bare

cd ..
mkdir -p /var/test.local.git
cd /var/test.local.git/
git init
touch TEST.txt
git add TEST.txt
git commit -m "repository initalization" 
git push /var//test.git/ master