Git Fatal Error: info/refs not found

Question

I receive the following error:

fatal: https://github.com/username/repository-name.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?         


        

Answer 1

I had the same error info/refs not found when I was cloning a local repository and serving it via http.

It seems that cloning a repository doesn't create the info/refs file and therefore it cannot been served remotely (https, ssh etc.) as remotely there is no way to get the name of the master branch without listing the .git folder, so the info/refs provides the path and the commitid for current git repository HEAD .

mkdir clone-without-refs; cd clone-without-refs
git clone ../origin.git .
ls -l .git/info

so I created it by hand this way (in the source repository, assuming you run a /bin/sh type of shell)

gitid=$(git rev-parse  HEAD)
echo HEAD: $gitid
echo -e "$gitid\trefs/heads/master" > .git/info/refs
if [ ! -e .git/refs/heads/master ]; then
    echo $gitid > .git/refs/heads/master
fi

then I did my cloning again and it worked (change $origin with yours):

rm -rf ../cloned
# checking if refs file is there (httpds server side):
origin="http://localhost:8080/~$USER/$(pwd|sed -e "s,$HOME/,,")/.git"
curl $origin/info/refs
git clone $origin ../cloned
# verify
git -C ../cloned log -2