Re: push failure on domain-connected machine

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2015, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaoX8-N1ccT_HqXjqZJ1B3dsB3NYGVY13X2CN7NDPZjtQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <564CAB93.9040007@icefield.yk.ca>

+ Johannes

Though git for windows tracks its bugs at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues I think.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Erik Blake <erik@icefield.yk.ca> wrote:

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> When pushing an existing local repo to a new remote repo, git 2.6.3
> misidentifies the user's home directory on a domain-connected Windows
> machine. My machine is running Win7-64 and I have tried both the 32-bit
> and 64-bit version of git.
>
> For example, the following sequence fails on the last command:
>
>>git remote add remote <remote repo URL>
>>git config remote.uf.push refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
>>git push remote master
>
> The error returned by the last command is "Could not create directory
> '/home/foo/.ssh'."
>
> git should be targeting the directory '/home/foo.domain/.ssh' instead.
>
> The path to the user profile should be taken from %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
> or, preferably, %USERPROFILE% and not %USERNAME%, unless %USERDOMAIN% is
> appended when a domain-connected computer is detected.
>
> git 1.9.5 does not exhibit this problem.
>
>
>
>
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