I'm facing some problems while git clone a repo from my ubuntu server running gitolite.
First, I got a public key from the developer who wants to clone the repository from the server. It was a rsa key created with putty. So I did the following to parse it from the putty-style to openssh format with:
ssh-keygen -i -f /tmp/ssh2/YourName.pub > /tmp/openssh/YourName.pub (taken from http://gitolite.googlecode.com/git/doc/ssh-troubleshooting.mkd?r=d3a663d03f1027f909732d55d0519bdd84edb62c)
and uploaded the public key along with a new entry for the repo and the new user in the config file to gitolite-admin repo.
So far, so good.
The developer is using **** along with putty to connect to the server, which is running git on a non-standard port and he keeps on getting the same error over and over again:
Cloning into 'D:\path\to\dirctory'...
error: Recv failure: Connection was reset while accessing http://sub.domain.com/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128)
Could anyone give me some advice about this issue?
EDIT:
In the meantime, we managed to git clone the repository by addressing it with the ssh:// protocol instead of git://, so it doesn't seem like it is a problem of the rsa_public.key or something like that.
The iptables on the server are accepting connections through the port for git, but it keeps on giving the above mentioned error.
The OP herom initially commented that the developer used git://git@remote.server.com:port/repo.git as an address.
I asked if there was any firewall issue, preventing the use of the git port (9418), but the OP mentioned:
no, there shouldn't be a firewall issue as iptables is accepting traffic for the git port - the port is forwarded and appears to be another port when connecting from outside...
Now, the developer cloned the repo throughssh://(and even connecting to thessh-port!)
I note that the git port can sometime be blocked, as illustrated in this thread.
If not on the client side, maybe on the server side.