Resolved. I was missing a call to git-update-server-info. It fails to make the objects/info directory, so that had to be done manually.
GIT_DIR=~/public_html/repos/moodle.git git-update-server-info error: cannot open /home/martin/public_html/repos/moodle.git/objects/info/packs+ mkdir ~/public_html/repos/moodle.git/objects/info GIT_DIR=~/public_html/repos/moodle.git git-update-server-info And all is well. I'll update the documentation to note that dumb protocols will need this. Looking at server-info.c, there _is_ a call to safe_create_leading_directories(), not sure why it'd fail. I'm not much of a C jockey, really. This is with git as of a couple of ours ago: 66e06b6a17f1074401ad23f4b2a8a146b2900333 cheers, martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html