Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository

From: Richard Tibbitt <gitlist@lazyprune.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2011, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <6csv47te4qv41ni53q0kf1fne0a4e1grnm@4ax.com>

Hi

I've been struggling to find an answer to this for days.

Can anyone confirm whether I've got the syntax right for 'Git clone' when attempting to clone FROM a repository that was initialized using --separate-git-dir ?

If so, does this work on Linux systems ?

With Git on windows (git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 installed from GitExtensions224SetupComplete.msi) I get an error as below, that looks as though 'Git clone' is expecting the repo to have a 'normal' integral .git dir

  F:\>mkdir repo2
  F:\>mkdir repo2git
  F:\>cd repo2
  F:\repo2>call git init --separate-git-dir="..\repo2git\.git"
  Initialized empty Git repository in F:/repo2git/.git/
  F:\repo2>echo abc >file1.txt
  F:\repo2>call git add . -A
  F:\repo2>call git commit -m "first"
  [master (root-commit) c7e4766] first
   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
   create mode 100644 file1.txt
  F:\repo2>cd ..
  F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2
  Cloning into clone2...
  fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory

Many thanks in advance for any insight into this.

Richard