Hi,

On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> On 2016-12-05 12:05, thomas.attwood@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 08:09:14 +0000, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> >> There seems to be another issue, which may or may not being related:
> >> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/979
> > 
> > I think this is the same issue. I've posted my trace command output there as
> > It might be more appropriate:
> > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/979#issuecomment-264816175
> > 
> Thanks for the trace.
> I think that the problem comes from the "cwd", when a UNC name is used.
> 
> cd //SERVER/share/somedir
> does not work under Windows, the is no chance to change into that directory.
> Does anybody know out of his head why and since when we change the directory
> like this ?
> Or "git bisect" may help.

For the record, Hannes Sixt came up with a patch that fixes #979, and
which already made it into Git for Windows' `master`.

Ciao,
Johannes