git push returns error 500 (Google Code)

Question

I'm trying the following sequence of standard commands:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/steambmc/
cd steambmc
[made changes]
git commit -a
[added commit message]
git push

I've set up my username/password in .netrc.

When I try these, the first two succeed, but the last one appears to fail:

fatal: unable to access 'https://code.google.com/p/steambmc/': The requested URL returned error: 500

I've also tried git:// (which just hangs) and http:// (which has the same error.)

git version is 1.8.3.4 on Ubuntu Precise.

Solution 1

Edit .git\config, change the url from yourname@https://code.google.com/p/xyz/ to https://code.google.com/p/xyz/. When you push to it, just input your username and password, now it works well.

Solution 2

Double check your _netrc file or your authentication for the repo. I found if the auth isn't setup correctly Google seems to return 500.