Re: Cloning remotely under git for Windows not working

[Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>]

sorry, forgot reply all

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:04 PM W. Ekkehard Blanz
<ekkehard.blanz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>    $ git clone 10.0.7.181:D:\gitDepot\test.git
>    Cloning into 'test'...
>    username@10.0.7.181's password:
>    fatal: ''D:\gitDepot\test.git'' does not appear to be a git repository
>    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Any interesting information if you run with
  GIT_TRACE=1 git clone ...
or any of the other debugging flags?
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Variables

I recall having a difficult time when I hosted a repository on windows
a while back. Not exact specifics but that I ran into issues. Maybe
because of some default windows things. Like the default terminal
and/or the default ssh client.

Maybe something along the lines in this stackoverflow post
https://stackoverflow.com/a/67937630/1507124
It mentions the following issue
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/752
and the workaround is setting receive/uploadpack to use powershell.
I distinctly recall facing this issue and I believe I solved it the
same way, changing the default ssh shell to PowerShell instead of cmd.
Not sure if it solves your issue but I think it helped me.

I'm also pretty sure that another time I tried setting mingw-bash as
the ssh shell and then faced another issue related to mingw/windows
path quoting shenanigans