RE: Git problem in windows server

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2024, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <035401db3c4b$91ca9c70$b55fd550$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20241121190522.6s63bsvhxm3w5f5b@carbon>

On November 21, 2024 2:05 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

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>On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:24:42AM +0100, Luis Heredia wrote:
>
>[...]
>> The problem is when i try to clone in my windows 10 local machine (cmd
>> git clone - v ssh://user@serverIp:port/gitServer/git.git c:/temp) i
>> always receive the error "fatal: ´´/gitServer/git.git''  does not
>> appear to be a git repository".
>
>Does it work if you call
>
>  git clone ssh://user@serverIp:port/c/gitServer/git.git
>
>or may be
>
>  git clone ssh://user@serverIp:port/c:/gitServer/git.git
>
>?
>
>Basically the problem appears to be in that the Git process spawned

remotely in the

>SSH session set up by your local Git process, is given the path component

of the

>repository URL, which is "/gitServer/git.git" in your case.
>Obviously, this path is not correct on Windows filesystems.

Some SSH servers restrict interactions to a specific directory rather than allowing access to the root of the disk. I got around that by setting up a link (via Cygwin64) to the target location, which bypasses the configured SSH root. It would then require a different URI to account for that.

--Randall