ulfklose’s posterous

Running trac-git on Ubuntu 9.04 Server

It took me around two hours to figure out, why Trac was always throwing the following error, when launched using tracd:

Warning: Can't synchronize with the repository (Unsupported version control system "git":
 Can't find an appropriate component, maybe the corresponding plugin was not 
enabled? ). Look in the Trac log for more information.

The Ubuntu package trac-git was perfectly installed and seemed to work fine. The real reason was that the Ubuntu package trac-git depends on python2.6, which obviously doesn't work with trac-git.

So I did an

aptitude install python2.5 && rm /usr/bin/python && ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/python

which did the trick. After that, tracd was able to use the trac plugin for Git.

If it still doesn't work make sure that you have at least the following lines in your project's trac.ini:

[components] 
# for plugin version 0.10 
gitplugin.* = enabled 
 # for plugin version 0.11.0.1+ 
tracext.git.* = enabled 
 [git] 
cached_repository = true 
git_bin = /usr/bin/git 
persistent_cache = true 
shortrev_len = 7 
 [trac] 
repository_dir = /path/to/git/repository.git 
repository_type = git

If everything above is set a

tracd --port 8000 /var/trac/yourpath

should start tracd and make it available via port 8000 on your machine.