Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive

From: David Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2008, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <e1dab3980806020337x4d62dcablcf8d4385466b1b2f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <873anwt9ya.fsf@debian.erik.com>

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Christensen <thomasc@thomaschristensen.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I am having this issue on Debian with kernel 2.6.25 (2.6.24 works fine)
> and git 1.5.5.3.
>
>  $ git push /media/KINGSTON/foo.git
>  fatal: '/media/KINGSTON/foo.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> A notable difference between these 2 kernels is this line:
>
>  [   62.575939] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
>  filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> which appears in 2.6.25.

I don't remember if it gives this particular error message, but some vfat mounting options cause the file 'HEAD' to appear to the filesystem as 'head' which git doesn't like. (I don't think there any other basic git files which have uppercase.)It's worth having a look and see if that's happened.

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