Hello, We are using git on windows7(git-version 1.8.1; see below) and we get the following problem in using the command 'git --git-dir=' C:\UserTemp\git\appli3>git --git-dir=C:\UserTemp\git\appli3 tag fatal: Not a git repository: 'C:\UserTemp\git\appli3' but the repository is well defined,as we can run the following command: C:\UserTemp\git\appli3>git log -1 --oneline 37cdbe0 Merge branch 'master' of L:/_ApplicationData/FBLU_IT-FLIT/se-DevelopSupp When running the equivalent command on Linux, we don't have any problems: On Linux: >git --git-dir="/tmp/GITPOC/appli3" tag V1.0 V1.1 V2.0 V3.0 Could you help me please ? Best regards Manfred Schilz --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\UserTemp\git\appli3>git --version git version 1.8.1.msysgit.1 ============================================ Internet communications are not secure and therefore BGL BNP Paribas does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. ============================================ -- 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