RE: [BUG] Clones from local repositories do not work correctly under Windows

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2024, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <02b801da8d00$b2c5b9f0$18512dd0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqil0mmqpx.fsf@gitster.g>

On Friday, April 12, 2024 1:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>
>> alternate: C:/Temp/repoorig/.git/objects
>> alternate: /c/Temp/repoorig/.git/objects
>>
>> This is the MSYS2/Cygwin absolute path with a "drive letter".
>> Unfortunately, this kind of path is unintelligible for Git for Windows.
>> It expects absolute paths to begin with drive letter-colon or a
>> double-slash or double-backslash. For this reason, it reports "unable
>> to normalize alternate object path".
>>
>> The conclusion is: Do not use two different flavors of Git on a
>> repository that is set up with a link to an alternate repository.
>
>I do not complain to the conclusion, and I do not use Windows, but it makes

me

>wonder if there is a way to spell that full path that can be understood by

both

>implementations.  The two implementations are not incompatible in the

actual

>object contents and refnames and other things in .git/ directory, are they?
>
>In short, does MSYS2/Cygwin understand paths in "C:/Temp/..." style, and if

so,

>writing that out, even though it may not what it considers the native

format, would

>make the world a happier place.

I'm my environment (<2 month old Cygwin update), the path would be /cygdrive/c/temp... I have not had issues using that style with git. Cygwin itself does not understand C:\Temp (resolves to C:temp), but does understand C:/Temp in bash and various utilities. It also understands (and expects) ~ to mean /home/user (C:\Cygwin64\home\user) in the Cygwin space, not relative to C:\Users\user for resolving .gitconfig.