Hi I've been struggling to find an answer to this for days. Can anyone confirm whether I've got the syntax right for 'Git clone' when attempting to clone FROM a repository that was initialized using --separate-git-dir ? If so, does this work on Linux systems ? With Git on windows (git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 installed from GitExtensions224SetupComplete.msi) I get an error as below, that looks as though 'Git clone' is expecting the repo to have a 'normal' integral .git dir F:\>mkdir repo2 F:\>mkdir repo2git F:\>cd repo2 F:\repo2>call git init --separate-git-dir="..\repo2git\.git" Initialized empty Git repository in F:/repo2git/.git/ F:\repo2>echo abc >file1.txt F:\repo2>call git add . -A F:\repo2>call git commit -m "first" [master (root-commit) c7e4766] first 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 file1.txt F:\repo2>cd .. F:\>call git clone repo2 clone2 Cloning into clone2... fatal: failed to open 'F:/repo2/objects': No such file or directory Many thanks in advance for any insight into this. Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html