qchris wrote on 2014-04-24 11:28:33 (UTC)

So maybe at least one commit must exist?

But how could I create this one commit, if I cannot clone it?

(I had also tried pushing some unrelated commit directly to refs/heads/master at

ssh://git@fab.wmflabs.org:29418/diffusion/QCHRISTEST/qchris-test.git

and that also gives the

Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

error message.)

epriestley wrote on 2014-04-24 21:08:50 (UTC)

Have you followed the steps in the setup guide? It's linked when you create a hosted repository, but we should probably make the link clearer since a lot of users seem to miss it:

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/diffusion_hosting/

The empty repo issue is here:

https://secure.phabricator.com/T1493

Everything works fine, we just display a bad, confusing message instead of "This repository is empty."

qgil wrote on 2014-04-24 21:35:17 (UTC)

It may well be that we still need to configure something in our Phabricator instance. Or has anybody succeeded creating a repository here?

qchris wrote on 2014-04-25 00:20:33 (UTC)

Or has anybody succeeded creating a repository here?

The only working repos that I saw in our instance are repos that are not hosted by Phabricator.

qgil wrote on 2014-04-25 03:51:14 (UTC)

I have set the priority to Low and I have moved this task to (Not critical for the RfC) because Phabricator does support the creation of self-hosted git repositories that others can clone. The problem is that such functionality hasn't been configured in this Labs instance yet.

You can test this functionality e.g. at https://secure.phabricator.com/diffusion/P/

mattflaschen wrote on 2014-05-15 05:55:09 (UTC)

I think Roan is working on this.

Phab-02 is configured to support this and has a public IP so that ssh will work elsewhere and everywhere.

Change 215942 had a related patch set uploaded (by Chad):
Phabricator: Enable the webserver to serve git repos

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/215942

Change 215942 merged by Rush:
Phabricator: Enable the webserver to serve git repos

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/215942

Current status: cloning over https works but ssh is blocked by T100519: Phabricator needs to expose ssh

In T128#1620386, @mmodell wrote:

Current status: cloning over https works but ssh is blocked by T100519: Phabricator needs to expose ssh

Do we even need ssh? We can do write operations over https with authentication by a token/pass (see git-credential).

For an eventual migration, people will have to change their remote from gerrit to phabricator anyway, so might as well switch the protocol while at it.

In T128#1657143, @hashar wrote:

In T128#1620386, @mmodell wrote:

Current status: cloning over https works but ssh is blocked by T100519: Phabricator needs to expose ssh

Do we even need ssh? We can do write operations over https with authentication by a token/pass (see git-credential).

People just need to set it in:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/vcspassword/

For an eventual migration, people will have to change their remote from gerrit to phabricator anyway, so might as well switch the protocol while at it.

Is there a benefit to one over the other?

In T128#1657344, @greg wrote:

Is there a benefit to one over the other?

SSH is much more efficient.

Also password authentication isn't as secure. Passwords have to be stored somewhere or entered repeatedly.

/me nods, let's hope we can get this sorted soon.