Question

I am on Mac OS X 10.5.5, and when I try to do a git push (I have installed git via git installer available on google code), it shows me the following error

Counting objects: 86, done. Compressing objects: 100% (43/43), done. Writing objects: 100% (84/84), 4.68 MiB | 48 KiB/s, done. Total 84 (delta 37), reused 84 (delta 37) *** Project description file hasn't been set error: hooks/update exited with error code 1 error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To <my_git_server>:project_name.git  ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to '<my_git_server>' 

The mystery is that project description file is actually set, any idea why it might be behaving weird.

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MI

Answer 1

It is looking at the project description on the server; does <my_git_server>:project_name.git contain a file called description that contains something other than ‘Unnamed repository’?

If it does, and you’re still having problems, you could disable the check for a description altogether; it’s not essential. Comment out the following lines in project_name.git/hooks/update:

# check for no description projectdesc=$(sed -e '1q' '$GIT_DIR/description') case '$projectdesc' in 'Unnamed repository'* | '')         echo '*** Project description file hasn't been set' >&2         exit 1         ;; esac