Re: Error with Templates: Could not find templates on cloning but on creating

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: May 29, 2017, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <fa99116f-ce82-f7c6-30ed-807c873c3634@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <201705291120.v4TBKfkV082879@mikako.shopkeeper.de>

Am 29.05.2017 um 13:20 schrieb Mathias Artus:

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> Hi,
> Today i've tried to set up a template directory. I added in the system wide gitconfig the following lines:
> 	
> 	[init]
> 		templatedir = "//OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate"
> 
> Where //Ourserver is a Network Path.
> With this line i can create a new Repository and the template gets copied. But when i clone a repo the following error shows up and the template doesn't get copied:
> 	templates not found /OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate
> 
> I Recognized that one slash was missing. Hence i added one:
> 	[init]
> 		templatedir = "///OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate"
> 
> Fine, cloning works after that, but creating a new repository then shows up a Warning:
> 	templates not found ///OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate
> 
> Is that a known bug or is it my Failure?
> 
> I use git 2.13 on windows 7

I cannot reproduce. I'm on Windows 8.1, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference. Are you using Cygwin's git by any chance?

-- Hannes