* separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
@ 2013-10-19 8:49 Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 9:17 ` Duy Nguyen
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ain Valtin @ 2013-10-19 8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 8:49 separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive Ain Valtin
@ 2013-10-19 9:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 11:11 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-19 15:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Duy Nguyen @ 2013-10-19 9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ain Valtin; +Cc: Git Mailing List, Jiang Xin
There seems to be some regression fixes regarding dos drives. The one
that caught my eyes is 7fbd422 (relative_path should honor
dos-drive-prefix - 2013-10-14) but it's not released yet. And I'm not
sure if msys branch picks it up yet even if you want to rebuild and
test it yourself. Copying Jiang Xin, maybe he can tell if that commit
should fix what you describe here, or it's a new bug.
--
Duy
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Ain Valtin <ain.valtin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 8:49 separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 9:17 ` Duy Nguyen
@ 2013-10-19 11:11 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-19 11:45 ` Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 15:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Fredrik Gustafsson @ 2013-10-19 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ain Valtin; +Cc: git
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:49:27AM +0300, Ain Valtin wrote:
> 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
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Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a
bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over
the network and not local between virt. machines).
I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that
git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not
just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been
problematic).
(This is probably something we should have in a test-suite somewhere.)
--
Med vänliga hälsningar
Fredrik Gustafsson
tel: 0733-608274
e-post: iveqy@iveqy.com
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 11:11 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
@ 2013-10-19 11:45 ` Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 11:55 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ain Valtin @ 2013-10-19 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fredrik Gustafsson; +Cc: git
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
>
> Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a
> bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over
> the network and not local between virt. machines).
>
> I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that
> git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not
> just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been
> problematic).
That's a shame :(
As I wrote I want to use git in a virtual machine and as a extra
precaution it would be nice to have the repo outside of the VM, on the
host drive - should the VM not to start up for whatever reason I
wouldn't lose my repo with it...
ain
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 11:45 ` Ain Valtin
@ 2013-10-19 11:55 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Fredrik Gustafsson @ 2013-10-19 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ain Valtin; +Cc: Fredrik Gustafsson, git
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:45:46PM +0300, Ain Valtin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a
> > bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over
> > the network and not local between virt. machines).
> >
> > I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that
> > git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not
> > just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been
> > problematic).
>
> That's a shame :(
> As I wrote I want to use git in a virtual machine and as a extra
> precaution it would be nice to have the repo outside of the VM, on the
> host drive - should the VM not to start up for whatever reason I
> wouldn't lose my repo with it...
>
>
> ain
A better way (if you can afford it) is to have a repo on the virtual
machine and push to a repo on your hostmachine (so that you've two
repos). However your solution "should" work but I personally have had
some problems with that area.
--
Med vänliga hälsningar
Fredrik Gustafsson
tel: 0733-608274
e-post: iveqy@iveqy.com
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 8:49 separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive Ain Valtin
2013-10-19 9:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 11:11 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
@ 2013-10-19 15:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-19 20:21 ` Ain Valtin
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Torsten Bögershausen @ 2013-10-19 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ain Valtin, git, msysGit
On 2013-10-19 10.49, Ain Valtin wrote:
> 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
(This could go to msysgit mailing list, so I add a CC)
(and I think, it is a known issue)
As a work around, could you try this:
> Downgrading to msysgit 1.8.3 fixes my problem.
and tell us if this helps you?
/Torsten
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* Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
2013-10-19 15:47 ` Torsten Bögershausen
@ 2013-10-19 20:21 ` Ain Valtin
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ain Valtin @ 2013-10-19 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Torsten Bögershausen; +Cc: git, msysGit
>
> (This could go to msysgit mailing list, so I add a CC)
> (and I think, it is a known issue)
>
> As a work around, could you try this:
>> Downgrading to msysgit 1.8.3 fixes my problem.
> and tell us if this helps you?
Yes, 1.8.3 seems to work (did initial commit successfully).
ain
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