Re: relative objects/info/alternates doesn't work on remote SMB repo

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2012, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BSpX7UxAEhZTqNnazAtSMp7oZtyxiBdnVoCXefWpTDEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGHpTBKNurqd0xcz9A9bC8MQU8yHfef0ozJ2Khr9uQvwHoyP2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Orgad and Raizel Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I have a repo accessed through //server/share/foo/repo (Using msysgit).
>
> .git/objects/info/alternates contains '../../../bare/objects'
>
> Running 'git status' (or almost any other action) gives the following output:
> error: object directory /server/share/foo/bare/objects does not exist;
> check .git/objects/info/alternates.
>
> Note that it tries to access /server instead of //server.

Could be path normalization. What does "git rev-parse --git-dir" say? Try to run it at top working directory and a subdirectory as well.

If you set GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY environment variable to //server/share/foo/repo/.git/objects, does it work?

-- 
Duy

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