Unable to connect to Stash
Symptoms
The following appears when trying to clone the repository in Stash:
fatal: http://user@example.com:7990/scm/PROJECT/repo.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git repository?Diagnosis
Certain combinations of git and libcurl don't cope with the response body Stash used to return up to version 2.0.3.
| GIT Version | Curl version | Works? |
|---|---|---|
| <= 1.7.12.2 | 7.19.7 |  |
| 1.7.12.3 | 7.19.7 |  |
| 1.8.0.2 | 7.19.7 | |
| 1.7.12.3 | 7.28.1 | |
| 1.8.0.2 | 7.28.1 | |
This seems to particularly affect CentOS which ships with somewhat old versions of libcurl. E.g. CentOS 6.3 with curl-devel-7.19.7; CentOS 5.8 with curl-devel-7.15.5.
Workaround: Preferred: upgrade to Stash 2.0.3 or 2.1 or higher. If that isn't possible, please use a version of git that is known to work or compile git against a more recent version of libcurl.
Libcurl:
curl -OL http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.28.1.tar.gz
tar xfz curl-7.28.1.tar.gz
cd curl-7.28.1
./configure --enable-http --prefix=/opt/curl-7.28.1
make
sudo make installgit:
make configure
./configure --prefix=/opt/git-1.8.0.2 --with-curl=/opt/curl-7.28.1
make
sudo make installCause
This is a combination of behaviour in Stash STASH-2966 - Getting issue details... STATUS with certain combinations of git and curl.
Workaround
Use Git Client version 1.7.12.2 or lower to connect to Stash.
Resolution
Upgrade to Stash 2.0.3+ that has fixed the bug.