From: Ain Valtin <ain.valtin@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:49:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADgy815BJAJrbW0JJ2a9vZ4NwzGersceg6b96TPAey_pR+mOiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi
I want to use git in a VirtualBox guest so that the repository is on
the host drive. So in the VB settings for the guest I set up a shared
folder "gitRepos" to /home/ain with full access rights. Then in the
guest OS (Windows XP) I map this shared folder as G drive. Now in the
project dir I execute
C:\...\TPP>git init --separate-git-dir g:/TPP
Initialized empty Git repository in g:/TPP/
Checked, the repo structure is in the "g:/TPP/" (thus the guest OS can
write to the mapped dir) and in the .git file created to the project
dir there is line
gitdir: g:/TPP
However when tring to use the repo it fails to recognise the g:/TPP path, ie
C:\...\TPP>git add .
fatal: unable to access '../../../../../../g:/TPP/config': Invalid argument
Also tryed "gitdir: //VBOXSVR/gitRepos/TPP" but this fails too:
C:\...\TPP>git add .
fatal: Unable to create 'C:/Documents and
Settings/Ain/prog/AVT/TPP/../../../../../..///VBOXSVR/gitRepos/TPP/index.lock':
No such file or directory
Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? Any idea how to get it to work?
BTW the VB is 3.0.14 ie rather old version but it seems that this
isn't the problem as the git init recognises the mapped drive but
other commands fail.
git version is 1.8.4.msysgit.0
TIA
ain
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-19 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-19 8:49 Ain Valtin [this message]
2013-10-19 9:17 ` separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 11:11 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-19 11:45 ` Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 11:55 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-19 15:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-19 20:21 ` Ain Valtin
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