Re: [Savannah-users] Allowing non-fastforward pushes in git

[Nik Nyby]

On 06/28/2015 03:45 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hi Nik,
>
> Nik Nyby wrote:
> > I tried to do a simple push (git push origin jpm) to this
> > branch today, and I'm getting a strange "unpacker error"
> > I haven't seen before:
> >
> > Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> > Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 367 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
> > Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
> > error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
> > To git://git.sv.gnu.org/librejs.git
>       ^^^ Public read-only URL
>
> That isn't the writable URL.  That is the public anonymous read-only
> location.  For project members you will need/want to use the
> authenticated ssh:// url.  To show the paths in your git repository:
>
>    git remote show -n origin
>
> Try using the ssh location.
>
>    ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/librejs.git
>
> You can rewrite your remote URL location on your presently cloned
> repository.  This should change your origin from git:// to ssh:// on
> your presently cloned repository.
>
>    git remote set-url origin ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/librejs.git
>
>    git remote show origin
>
> Bob

Thanks, I should have realized I was just using the wrong url.
I was pushing from a repo on a computer I don't normally push from. It's
working now.