Can I use ownCloud to host my own Git repos?

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Hi community,

does anybody know if oC can be used to host one’s own private Git repositories?

After uploading the Git repo using a WebDAV client, I configured the git client to push to it using WebDAV, but it fails with the error no DAV locking support:

$ git remote -v
origin  https://tobia@MYSERVER/remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git (fetch)
origin  https://tobia@MYSERVER/remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git (push)

$ git push
error: no DAV locking support on https://tobia@MYSERVER/remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/
fatal: git-http-push failed
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://tobia@MYSERVER/remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git'

Is there a workaround? Can I enable the locking support somewhere in the server, or disable it in the git client?

Should I give up and just use an SSH account instead of ownCloud?

Here are the relevant access.log lines (there are no error.log entries):

MYADDRESS - - [21/Nov/2016:12:45:57 +0100] "GET /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1" 401 4480 "-" "git/2.7.4"
MYADDRESS - tobia [21/Nov/2016:12:45:57 +0100] "GET /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1" 401 1312 "-" "git/2.7.4"
MYADDRESS - tobia [21/Nov/2016:12:45:57 +0100] "GET /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1" 200 1415 "-" "git/2.7.4"
MYADDRESS - tobia [21/Nov/2016:12:45:58 +0100] "GET /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 1333 "-" "git/2.7.4"
MYADDRESS - - [21/Nov/2016:12:45:58 +0100] "PROPFIND /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/ HTTP/1.1" 401 4497 "-" "git/2.7.4"
MYADDRESS - tobia [21/Nov/2016:12:45:59 +0100] "PROPFIND /remote.php/webdav/MYREPO.git/ HTTP/1.1" 207 1707 "-" "git/2.7.4"

(I don’t know what’s up with the 401 entries. Maybe the git client tries authenticating in a number of ways before succeeding?)

Server configuration
Operating system: Ubuntu Trusty
Web server: Apache 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.13
Database: MySQL 5.5.53-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
PHP version: 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20
ownCloud version: 9.1.2 (stable)
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install: fresh
Special configuration: none

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Hi,

i think you shouldn’t waste your time trying to get git running on oC. This is the completely wrong use-case for ownCloud. oC is about file sharing and syncing, not about being a webserver to serve stuff like .git repositories. Especially as oC is also known to be slow with small files.

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While we are working on the small files (with a feature called bundling) I fully agree on the use case.
The WebDAV locking is indeed not implemented in ownCloud at this time.

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All right. In that case, I’ll just use the SSH account I have on my server and keep the Git repos in my home, outside of oC.