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Hello, 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...

+5  A: 

You need to create the git-daemon-export-ok file in the .git directory. Don't commmit 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.

Ted Percival
Or use `git clone --bare`
gahooa
Thanks. The key is putting git-daemon-export-ok in the .git dir, not the parent dir.
Number8
Or use --export-all option to git-daemon
Jakub Narębski