Trac and Git on Debian Lenny

Random Brain dump – Trac 0.11 with Git on Debian Lenny; this worked for me …

We’ll use /var/git/ as the location where our git repositories live – e.g. /var/git/repository1, /var/git/repository2 etc.

So, assuming you have git-core installed, create the Git repository:

mkdir -p /var/git/repository

cd /var/git/repository

git init –bare

Next, install the trac-git extension so trac can do ‘git’ like things:

apt-get install trac-git

Ensure the WebDAV FS module is enabled in Apache:

a2enmod dav_fs

And Expose where the Git repository is on the web server – e.g.

cd /var/www

ln -s /var/git git

And add something like :

<Location /git>
     DAV on
</Location>

Next, let’s create the Trac Repository:

trac-admin /var/trac/repository initenv \

     repository sqlite:db/trac.db git /var/git/repository

Configure Trac to do Git things:

Edit /var/trac/repository/conf/trac.ini and make sure it contains something like :

[components]

tracext.git.* = enabled

[git]

cached_repository = false

git_bin = /usr/bin/git

persistent_cache = false

shortrev_len = 7

Finally, just make sure permissions are correct:

chown -R www-data /var/trac/repository

chown -R www-data /var/git/repository

Then finally, restart Apache, point your web browser at the trac repository (assuming you’ve already setup Trac via e.g mod_python or similar) and you’ll probably seen an AssertionFailed error (with no helpful message). This seems to be a one off when the repository is empty… so try :

mkdir ~/src/tmp

cd ~/src/tmp

git init

echo 'test' > hello.txt

git add hello.txt

git commit

git config remote.upload.url https://user@remote.host/git/repository/

git push upload master

(If this fails with some unhelpful message like :

orange:~/src/tmp $ git push upload master

....

error: Cannot access URL https://david@remote.host/git/repository/,

      return code 60

error: failed to push some refs to

      'https://david@remote.host/git/repository/'