How can I allow anonymous push to a git repository over http?

Question

I cannot find an example here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Add this to your httpd.conf (Assuming /srv/git contains your repos)

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all


SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /srv/git
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/

Then make sure apache can write to your repository directory (from inside repo run this where http is your apache user)

chown -R http .

In the repository you have created on the server open up .git/config and add the following

[http]
    receivepack = true

and finally in the repository root run

git config --bool core.bare true

alternatively if you want a the files available on the server (for a web site or whatever) then disregard the above command and edit .git/config with this

[receive]
    denyCurrentBranch = false

and then run this on the server when you want to update the dir (there must be a better way so please let me know)

git reset --hard