Git repository not exported: fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Question

Setting up new git installations.

On one Windows laptop, I'm running (under cygwin):

git daemon --base-path=/cygdrive/c/work/proj/  

My project's root is c:\work\proj\proj1. There is a c:\work\proj\proj1\.git directory.
git-daemon-export-ok exists in c:\work\proj\proj1. (git-daemon-export-ok can be an empty file, yes?)

On another Windows computer, on the same local network, I've tried many variations of this (under cygwin):

git clone git://xx.xx.xx.xx/proj1  

I expect that the daemon will append 'proj1' to the base-path and do the right thing.

On the server I see:

5728] '/cygdrive/c/work/proj/proj1/.git': repository not exported.

On the client I see:

$ git clone git://xx.xx.xx.xx/proj1
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/work/proj/proj1/.git/  
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

What am I doing wrong?
TIA...

Answer 1

You need to create the git-daemon-export-ok file in the .git directory. Don't commit it into the repository along with your code, but just create an empty file with that name along with the branches, hooks, info, etc. directories.

Answer 2

i had this same issue, but for a different reason. if Ted's answer doesn't work for you, try adding "--enable=receive-pack" to your git-daemon options. this did the trick for me.