Git Daemon on linux?

Trying to set up a simple git-daemon on a linux server, and talk to it from a windows box.

On linux server:

1. Make a folder /home/foo/bar


2. CD to /home/foo/bar


3. do a git --bare init here


4. Do a touch git-daemon-export-ok


5. CD to /home/foo


6. Run the command git-daemon --verbose --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/foo --enable=receive-pack

On Windows Client w tortoise Git

1. Do git.exe clone --progress -v "git://servername/bar" "C:\source\myFolderName" (works)


2. Create file a.txt, add it to git, and commit (works)


3. Do a git.exe pull "origin" master and then get fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master (makes sense, master isn't there yet)


4. Do a git.exe push "origin" master:master and tortoise hangs forever without do anything

I realize why I can't pull from master yet on the remote branch.. but why can't I push my first commit into the remote repo? #4 really should work. Tried it both with tortoise and the mysysgit command line, both cases I hang forever. What am I missing? Server has no useful log

Answer

Unfortunately this is probably a bug in msysgit http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=457

As of right now there is a workaround (not in the main branch I think) but no true fix.