Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links

Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links

[Lucas Araki]

Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
Attempted push operation

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
push operation success, no error message

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
Push operation failed with error message:
Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links
ref feature/feature_name:: EvalSymlinks: too many links
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://my_server_name/my_project.git'

In addition, lfs/ directory was created in project folder instead of
.git folder.

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
Did not expect lfs/ directory to be created in project folder.
Don't expect error on push operation.

Anything else you want to add:
After reading issues #4050 and #4012, attempted:
`git lfs env` and got output:
git-lfs/2.13.3 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.16.2; git a5e65851)
git version 2.33.0.windows.2

Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links
Endpoint=https://my_server_name/my_project.git/info/lfs (auth=basic)
LocalWorkingDir=
LocalGitDir=
LocalGitStorageDir=
LocalMediaDir=lfs\objects
LocalReferenceDirs=
TempDir=lfs\tmp
ConcurrentTransfers=8
TusTransfers=false
BasicTransfersOnly=false
SkipDownloadErrors=false
FetchRecentAlways=false
FetchRecentRefsDays=7
FetchRecentCommitsDays=0
FetchRecentRefsIncludeRemotes=true
PruneOffsetDays=3
PruneVerifyRemoteAlways=false
PruneRemoteName=origin
LfsStorageDir=lfs
AccessDownload=basic
AccessUpload=basic
DownloadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
UploadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
GIT_EXEC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core
git config filter.lfs.process = "git-lfs filter-process"
git config filter.lfs.smudge = "git-lfs smudge -- %f"
git config filter.lfs.clean = "git-lfs clean -- %f"


Realized that project was in Box drive folder, set to keep local copy,
but based on issues #4050 and #4012, decided to try moving project to
a different local location.
I copied entire project directory our of Box folder, then re-ran `git
lfs env` and got output:
git-lfs/2.13.3 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.16.2; git a5e65851)
git version 2.33.0.windows.2

Endpoint=https://git.elsys.gtri.org/scm/tads/tads-suite-test-plan.git/info/lfs
(auth=basic)
LocalWorkingDir=C:\Users\username\myProject
LocalGitDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git
LocalGitStorageDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git
LocalMediaDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs\objects
LocalReferenceDirs=
TempDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs\tmp
ConcurrentTransfers=8
TusTransfers=false
BasicTransfersOnly=false
SkipDownloadErrors=false
FetchRecentAlways=false
FetchRecentRefsDays=7
FetchRecentCommitsDays=0
FetchRecentRefsIncludeRemotes=true
PruneOffsetDays=3
PruneVerifyRemoteAlways=false
PruneRemoteName=origin
LfsStorageDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs
AccessDownload=basic
AccessUpload=basic
DownloadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
UploadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
GIT_EXEC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core
git config filter.lfs.process = "git-lfs filter-process"
git config filter.lfs.smudge = "git-lfs smudge -- %f"
git config filter.lfs.clean = "git-lfs clean -- %f"

Noticed that LocalGitDir looked correct and was no longer blank.
Re-tried `git push` from new project location and push operation succeeded.

Please review the rest of the bug report below.
You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.


[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.33.0.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 8735530946cced809cc6cc4c2ca3b078cdb3dfc8
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
uname: Windows 10.0 19042
compiler info: gnuc: 10.3
libc info: no libc information available
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>


[Enabled Hooks]
post-commit
post-checkout
post-merge
pre-push

Re: Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Lucas,

On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Lucas Araki wrote:

> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>
> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> Attempted push operation
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> push operation success, no error message
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> Push operation failed with error message:
> Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links

The "EvalSymlinks" part makes me believe that this is an error message
produced by Go, and since you indicated that you use Git LFS (which is
implemented in Go), that's where I looked. And I think I found a relevant
bug report:

	https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/4333

It points to https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/4012, which in turn
points to https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/pull/4418 which was merged on
March 4th, well in time for Git LFS v2.13.3, which was released on March
26th.

However, you mention in passing something like "Box"? Maybe that's an
important piece of the puzzle.

In any case, I would recommend taking this to Git LFS's bug tracker.

Ciao,
Johannes

> ref feature/feature_name:: EvalSymlinks: too many links
> error: failed to push some refs to 'https://my_server_name/my_project.git'
>
> In addition, lfs/ directory was created in project folder instead of
> .git folder.
>
> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
> Did not expect lfs/ directory to be created in project folder.
> Don't expect error on push operation.
>
> Anything else you want to add:
> After reading issues #4050 and #4012, attempted:
> `git lfs env` and got output:
> git-lfs/2.13.3 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.16.2; git a5e65851)
> git version 2.33.0.windows.2
>
> Error: error converting ".git" to absolute: EvalSymlinks: too many links
> Endpoint=https://my_server_name/my_project.git/info/lfs (auth=basic)
> LocalWorkingDir=
> LocalGitDir=
> LocalGitStorageDir=
> LocalMediaDir=lfs\objects
> LocalReferenceDirs=
> TempDir=lfs\tmp
> ConcurrentTransfers=8
> TusTransfers=false
> BasicTransfersOnly=false
> SkipDownloadErrors=false
> FetchRecentAlways=false
> FetchRecentRefsDays=7
> FetchRecentCommitsDays=0
> FetchRecentRefsIncludeRemotes=true
> PruneOffsetDays=3
> PruneVerifyRemoteAlways=false
> PruneRemoteName=origin
> LfsStorageDir=lfs
> AccessDownload=basic
> AccessUpload=basic
> DownloadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
> UploadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
> GIT_EXEC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core
> git config filter.lfs.process = "git-lfs filter-process"
> git config filter.lfs.smudge = "git-lfs smudge -- %f"
> git config filter.lfs.clean = "git-lfs clean -- %f"
>
>
> Realized that project was in Box drive folder, set to keep local copy,
> but based on issues #4050 and #4012, decided to try moving project to
> a different local location.
> I copied entire project directory our of Box folder, then re-ran `git
> lfs env` and got output:
> git-lfs/2.13.3 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.16.2; git a5e65851)
> git version 2.33.0.windows.2
>
> Endpoint=https://git.elsys.gtri.org/scm/tads/tads-suite-test-plan.git/info/lfs
> (auth=basic)
> LocalWorkingDir=C:\Users\username\myProject
> LocalGitDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git
> LocalGitStorageDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git
> LocalMediaDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs\objects
> LocalReferenceDirs=
> TempDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs\tmp
> ConcurrentTransfers=8
> TusTransfers=false
> BasicTransfersOnly=false
> SkipDownloadErrors=false
> FetchRecentAlways=false
> FetchRecentRefsDays=7
> FetchRecentCommitsDays=0
> FetchRecentRefsIncludeRemotes=true
> PruneOffsetDays=3
> PruneVerifyRemoteAlways=false
> PruneRemoteName=origin
> LfsStorageDir=C:\Users\username\myProject\.git\lfs
> AccessDownload=basic
> AccessUpload=basic
> DownloadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
> UploadTransfers=basic,lfs-standalone-file
> GIT_EXEC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core
> git config filter.lfs.process = "git-lfs filter-process"
> git config filter.lfs.smudge = "git-lfs smudge -- %f"
> git config filter.lfs.clean = "git-lfs clean -- %f"
>
> Noticed that LocalGitDir looked correct and was no longer blank.
> Re-tried `git push` from new project location and push operation succeeded.
>
> Please review the rest of the bug report below.
> You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.
>
>
> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.33.0.windows.2
> cpu: x86_64
> built from commit: 8735530946cced809cc6cc4c2ca3b078cdb3dfc8
> sizeof-long: 4
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> feature: fsmonitor--daemon
> uname: Windows 10.0 19042
> compiler info: gnuc: 10.3
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>
>
>
> [Enabled Hooks]
> post-commit
> post-checkout
> post-merge
> pre-push
>