RE: Git problem in windows server

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On November 21, 2024 2:05 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:24:42AM +0100, Luis Heredia wrote:
>
>[...]
>> The problem is when i try to clone in my windows 10 local machine (cmd
>> git clone - v ssh://user@serverIp:port/gitServer/git.git c:/temp) i
>> always receive the error "fatal: ´´/gitServer/git.git''  does not
>> appear to be a git repository".
>
>Does it work if you call
>
>  git clone ssh://user@serverIp:port/c/gitServer/git.git
>
>or may be
>
>  git clone ssh://user@serverIp:port/c:/gitServer/git.git
>
>?
>
>Basically the problem appears to be in that the Git process spawned
remotely in the
>SSH session set up by your local Git process, is given the path component
of the
>repository URL, which is "/gitServer/git.git" in your case.
>Obviously, this path is not correct on Windows filesystems.

Some SSH servers restrict interactions to a specific directory rather than
allowing access
to the root of the disk. I got around that by setting up a link (via
Cygwin64) to the target
location, which bypasses the configured SSH root. It would then require a
different
URI to account for that.

--Randall