In particular, the url passed to git-clone has an extra '/' given after the 'file://' schema prefix, thus: git clone --reference=original "file:///$(pwd)/original one Once the prefix is removed, the remainder of the url looks something like "//home/ramsay/git/t/...", which is then interpreted as an network path. This then results in a "Permission denied" error, like so: ramsay $ ls //home ls: cannot access //home: No such host or network path ramsay $ ls //home/ramsay ls: cannot access //home/ramsay: Permission denied ramsay $ In order to fix the problem, we simply remove the extraneous '/' character from the url. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- t/t5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/t5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh b/t/t5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh index b5ced84..1bc57ac 100755 --- a/t/t5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh +++ b/t/t5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ test_expect_success setup ' done ) && ( - git clone --reference=original "file:///$(pwd)/original" one && + git clone --reference=original "file://$(pwd)/original" one && cd one && echo Z >count && git add count && -- 1.7.7 -- 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