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Problem with Gitlab

I am getting mad trying to use a GitLab server I have installed in a OpenVZ container as available from http://www.turnkeylinux.org/gitlab...

Everything seems to go fine on the server... but from my local client I cannot either pull or push to the repositories: I am asked for 'git' password... but giving its Unix password does not work.

In fact, when on the server I cd to the directory under /home/git/repositories/ which I presume to be a git repository, 'git status' just answers 'fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree'

Obviously I am doing something wrong... if only I knew what!

Not sure if I have a Linux user problem? rights problem? git problem?

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Bernard Savonet

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B-) Thx for your prompt answer!

I could not clone my existing local repositories, since they are on my local windows machine and not accessable thru the net.
To make things easier, I created a "project" under Gitlab, which I (wrongly) assumed to create everything needed by Git
I have then realized that Gitlab gives instructions to locally create the repository... but they seem uncorrect:
Git global setup:

git config --global user.name "Administrator / Bernard"
git config --global user.email "admin@my_domain.fr"

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Create Repository

mkdir testing
cd testing
git init
touch README
git add README
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin git@mygit.my_domain.fr:admin/testing.git
git push -u origin master

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Everything seems OK, except that on this last command git asks for "git@mygit.my_domain.fr's password:" (fine) to which I answer the (unix user) git password, but I then get

fatal: 'admin/testing.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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while git log confirms everything to be ok:

commit 7872953b5447a6f68f3dee5d1cc273ddda9b2944
Author: root <root@mygit.my_domain.fr>
Date:   Mon May 5 17:28:17 2014 +0200

    first commit

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B-) I suspected that maybe the repository and the directory should have the same name instead of different names, but apparently this is not enough

Bernard Savonet

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problem solved.
will detail later
thx!

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Bernard Savonet

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The initial problem was caused by the way the OpenVZ container is defined in Proxmox. The TurnKeyLinux template assumes incorrectly the container to use venet, while I am using veth.