Suddenly unable to git fetch from origin
I would take a look at what is in the /users/integrator/project
directory on your server. Does it look like a git repository? It needs to have at leas an objects
directory, refs
directory, and HEAD
file in order to be a proper git repository. Does it contain all of those?
Another thing to check is if you can log in directly to the server, and clone from the repository.
Beyond that, if you still can't figure out what's wrong, I'd recommend editing your question to show a listing of what's in /users/integrator/project
, and perhaps we can provide more help with that information.
edit based on your edit:
Given the error, it looks like you might have a .git
directory within your bare repository. You can check with ls -a
, to show hidden files as well. If this is the case, Git may be looking into the .git
directory within your repository first, instead of looking at your repository directory itself. I would take a look for that, and then move the inner .git
away or delete it to allow Git to access your actual repository.
If there isn't a .git
directory within your repo, look around for anything named .git
or project.git
in the vicinity too; Git will search a variety of path names based on the one you give it, and a bare path name without a .git
subdirectory or suffix is near the end of what it searches.
dublev
Updated on September 29, 2020Comments
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dublev over 3 years
In my repository, I remotely track our main repository, which is bare. I've never had any problems with fetching from origin the past.
However, when I tried to remote update this morning, I got the following error:
fatal: '/users/integrator/project' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly error: Could not fetch origin
I haven't changed anything, and the repository is definitely still there. There are several people who have access to the integrator account, but they generally do merges and pulls. We don't allow pushing to this repository.
My question is: what could have caused this to happen? Or, are there any diagnostics I can use to figure out what is going wrong? I am not the only user suddenly having this problem, so the problem is more likely on the side of origin.
Update:
When I try to clone the bare repository, I get the following error:
git clone /users/integrator/project Cloning into project... fatal: failed to open '/users/integrator/project/.git/objects': No such file or directory
Here's a list of the contents of /users/integrator/project:
config HEAD packed-refs ssh_helper bin/ hooks/ info/ exclude objects/ [lots of folders with two character long names] info/ pack/ refs/ heads/ tags/
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drazen over 4 yearsIn case someone needs it, for me the solution was to update credentials.
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