simple HTTP request returns 500 error

john livingston

Traditionally, our company has accessed bitbucket repositories using SSH such as

git ls-remote --heads ssh://stash.ondomain.com:7999/sqa/ratts.git

and this command is successful.

We are now implementing a new workflow that uses HTTP to access the repositories such as

git ls-remote --heads http://stash.ondomain.com:7990/scm/sqa/ratts.git

and this command fails with error

fatal: unable to access 'http://stash.ondomain.com:7990/scm/sqa/ratts.git/': The requested URL returned error: 500

debug mode for the bitbucket log revealed this message

DEBUG [http-scmrequest-handler:thread-10] <user> @919999750x162357408x0 10.148.18.231 "GET /scm/sqa/ratts.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1" c.a.s.i.s.g.p.h.GitSmartExitHandler SQA/ratts[53]: Read request from 10.148.18.231 succeeded, but the following was written to stderr:
error: bogus format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
fatal: unable to parse command-line config

I haven’t been successful resolving this error and need help.
The Bitbucket version is 7.21.0 (and yes, we are absolutely on an upgrade path!)

john livingston

This error related to our linux host git installation.

We used an updated git version installed from tarbal at /usr/local

Over time, git version updates (and rollbacks!) led to out-of-sync git files.

An exact and detailed investigation of the git installation problem was not performed.

However, timestamps revealed git files existing from multiple installs/versions.

Purging /usr/local of multiple git tarbal installs was thought to be time consuming and  problematic.

The remedy was to install a new/fresh version of git at /usr/local-git-<version>.

Then update user stash’s PATH to first reference /usr/local-git-<version>/bin.

And of course stop-bitbucket ; source .bashrc ; start-bitbucket.