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Asked: 2026-06-13T03:31:56+00:00

I get this error when attempting to push to a windows server I have

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I get this error when attempting to push to a windows server I have set up that is running GitStack.

fatal: http://xx.xx.x.xxx/mjtest.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

This error seems to be quite common amongst people who are new to Git, GitBash and GitStack so I have found some possible solutions but none seem to work for me.

This is what I do that leads to the error, first I create an empty repository in GitStack called mjtest, I then create a user and add them to the repository and give them read and write access, then I use GitBash to create a local repository and try to push it.

git config --global user.name "XXXXXXX"
git config --global user.email XXXXXXX
mkdir ~/mjtest
cd ~/mjtest
git init
touch README
git add README
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin http://XX.XX.X.XXX/mjtest.git
git push origin master

This then asks me for a username and then a password which I enter correctly. Once they are entered it returns the fatal error message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It could be related to a control access issue.
    This usually happen when the repo hasn’t been set to be exported (by git-daemon or gitweb): GitStack could rely on a similar mechanism.
    See this thread for instance/

    I created an ’empty’ file with the name “git-daemon-export-ok‘ inside one of my repositories.
    I can now clone / push / pull to this repository without issues.

    That file should be created directly under the xxx.git root directory of your bare repo on the server.

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