On 2013-10-19 10.49, Ain Valtin wrote: > Hi > > I want to use git in a VirtualBox guest so that the repository is on > the host drive. So in the VB settings for the guest I set up a shared > folder "gitRepos" to /home/ain with full access rights. Then in the > guest OS (Windows XP) I map this shared folder as G drive. Now in the > project dir I execute > > C:\...\TPP>git init --separate-git-dir g:/TPP > Initialized empty Git repository in g:/TPP/ > > Checked, the repo structure is in the "g:/TPP/" (thus the guest OS can > write to the mapped dir) and in the .git file created to the project > dir there is line > > gitdir: g:/TPP > > However when tring to use the repo it fails to recognise the g:/TPP path, ie > > C:\...\TPP>git add . > fatal: unable to access '../../../../../../g:/TPP/config': Invalid argument > > Also tryed "gitdir: //VBOXSVR/gitRepos/TPP" but this fails too: > > C:\...\TPP>git add . > fatal: Unable to create 'C:/Documents and > Settings/Ain/prog/AVT/TPP/../../../../../..///VBOXSVR/gitRepos/TPP/index.lock': > No such file or directory > > Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? Any idea how to get it to work? > > BTW the VB is 3.0.14 ie rather old version but it seems that this > isn't the problem as the git init recognises the mapped drive but > other commands fail. > git version is 1.8.4.msysgit.0 > > > TIA > ain (This could go to msysgit mailing list, so I add a CC) (and I think, it is a known issue) As a work around, could you try this: > Downgrading to msysgit 1.8.3 fixes my problem. and tell us if this helps you? /Torsten -- 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