Commit ce9b8aab5 (setup_git_directory_1(): avoid changing global state, 2017-03-13) changed how the git directory is discovered, and as a side effect when the discovery reaches the root directory Git tries to access paths like '//HEAD' and '//objects'. This interacts badly with Cygwin, which interprets it as a UNC file share, and so demand-loads a bunch of extra DLLs and attempts to resolve/contact the server named HEAD. This obviously doesn't work too well, especially over a slow network link. Special case the root directory in is_git_directory() to prevent accessing paths with leading double slashes. Reported-by: Andrew Baumann <Andrew.Baumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> --- I'm not quite sure whether this is the right or complete fix. I can't test it on Cygwin, and I don't know whether Git for Windows is affected with it's drive prefixes in paths. Anyway, at least strace output on Linux looks good to me. setup.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index 03f51e056..0cfc5e676 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -311,6 +311,10 @@ int is_git_directory(const char *suspect) int ret = 0; size_t len; + /* To avoid accessing '//HEAD' & co when checking the root directory */ + if (!strcmp(suspect, "/")) + suspect = ""; + /* Check worktree-related signatures */ strbuf_addf(&path, "%s/HEAD", suspect); if (validate_headref(path.buf)) -- 2.15.0.67.gb67a46776
