Hi Peff, On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 09:16:04PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > On 2020-02-16 at 16:10:12, lyle.ziegelmiller@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > Any updates on this error I emailed a while back? > > > > > > lylez@LJZ-DELLPC ~/python > > > $ git push > > > Enumerating objects: 5, done. > > > Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. > > > Delta compression using up to 4 threads > > > Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. > > > Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 279 bytes | 23.00 KiB/s, done. > > > Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) > > > remote: fatal: not a git repository: '.' > > > > This error is telling you that Git doesn't think the remote location is > > a Git repository. It could be because it really isn't one, or it could > > be that the permissions are wrong. > > > > It could also be that the repository is mostly there but very slightly > > corrupt and therefore can't be detected as one. For example, it could > > be missing its HEAD reference. > > I think it's more subtle than that, though. If it wasn't a git > repository at all, then receive-pack would fail to start, and you'd get > something like this: > > $ git push /foo/bar > fatal: '/foo/bar' does not appear to be a git repository > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights > and the repository exists. > > The output above, plus the: > > error: remote unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit > > makes it looks like receive-pack started just fine, but something about > the way it set up the environment made the child unpack-objects unhappy > when it tried to initialize its internal repo variables. > > I have no clue what that "something" is, though. Windows and UNC paths > were mentioned elsewhere, which seem plausible. It mentions ".", so > presumably we've chdir()'d into the receiving repository and set > $GIT_DIR. Which I'd think rules out any weird interpretations of UNC > paths in $GIT_DIR. I thought that I remembered that it is not possible to `chdir()` into a UNC path. And it would seem that `cmd.exe` still cannot have a UNC path as a current directory. But PowerShell can, and so does `git.exe`, apparently (I tested this using `wsl bash -lc "cd ~ && git.exe -C . version"`). But I vividly remember that there used to be a problem even with `git.exe`, probably still is a problem on older Windows versions. That might be the problem here? Ciao, Dscho > I'd expect that error if we did a chdir() internally to some other path > after setting up $GIT_DIR, but I don't know why we'd do that (I thought > at first that the quarantine code in receive-pack might be related, but > we don't ever chdir() into the quarantine dir; we just set up > GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY). > > -Peff >
