Hi Hannes, no i use the native installation with Mingw. Greetz Mathias Mit freundlichen Grüßen Mathias Artus pecont steuerungen / software GmbH / Kurt Franke Straße 1 / 99098 Erfurt/ Geschäftsführer: Volker Pennewitz, Ants Wiegand / Tel.: +49 (172) 6948649 / Fax: +49 (36203) 719776 / HRB: 107443 / Jena -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Johannes Sixt [mailto:j6t@xxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Montag, 29. Mai 2017 23:05 An: Mathias Artus <mathias.artus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: Error with Templates: Could not find templates on cloning but on creating Am 29.05.2017 um 13:20 schrieb Mathias Artus: > Hi, > Today i've tried to set up a template directory. I added in the system wide gitconfig the following lines: > > [init] > templatedir = "//OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate" > > Where //Ourserver is a Network Path. > With this line i can create a new Repository and the template gets copied. But when i clone a repo the following error shows up and the template doesn't get copied: > templates not found /OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate > > I Recognized that one slash was missing. Hence i added one: > [init] > templatedir = "///OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate" > > Fine, cloning works after that, but creating a new repository then shows up a Warning: > templates not found ///OurServer/SomeDirectory/GitTemplate > > Is that a known bug or is it my Failure? > > I use git 2.13 on windows 7 I cannot reproduce. I'm on Windows 8.1, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference. Are you using Cygwin's git by any chance? -- Hannes