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

> 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.
> 
> - Orgad
> --

> 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.

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

>> 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?
>
> git rev-parse --git-dir in a subdirectory has //server

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Orgad and Raizel Shaneh
> <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> git rev-parse --git-dir in a subdirectory has //server
>
> Hmm where is your git repository? That does not look like a git
> repository's path.
>

>> setting GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY prints "fatal: bad object HEAD" on git status.
>
> I guessed you put your repo in .../repo/.git, but I was probably
> wrong. Try setting again, pointing GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to the
> "objects" directory inside your repository. I just want to make see if
> it's because git miscalculates this path. If setting the env variable
> works, then it probably does.
> --
> Duy

>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Orgad and Raizel Shaneh
> > <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >> git rev-parse --git-dir in a subdirectory has //server
> >
> > Hmm where is your git repository? That does not look like a git
> > repository's path.
> >
>
> Let me try to explain again.
> I have /d/share/bare, which is a bare repository, and /d/share/repo
> which is a clone with a relative path to bare/.git/objects in its
> .git/objects/info/alternates
>
> D:\share is configured as a SMB shared folder. It is accessed using
> //server/share.
> I do not clone from this directory, but work directly in it using 'cd
> //server/share', then performing git operations.
>
> >> setting GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY prints "fatal: bad object HEAD" on git
> >> status.
> >
> > I guessed you put your repo in .../repo/.git, but I was probably
> > wrong. Try setting again, pointing GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to the
> > "objects" directory inside your repository. I just want to make see if
> > it's because git miscalculates this path. If setting the env variable
> > works, then it probably does.
> > --
> > Duy
>
> Same result. fatal: bad object HEAD. Tried even using a full (local)
> path to the objects dir.
>
> - Orgad