I believe there is a subtle bug in Git that can mean that a "git add" fails, complaining that "fatal: <filename>: '<filename>' is outside repository at '//<server>/<share>/<directory> /' It may be possible to reproduce this with simpler steps, but this is what I have that fails. 1. A Git repo on system <server> below directory <directory> that can be reached via the Windows share <share> 2. On a second system, perform "net use z: file://%3cserver%3e/%3cshare>" 3. Now you can "cd /d z:\<directory>" and run "git status" quite happily 4. At this point I can also so this: a. "cd /d z:" then "git add <z:\some-changed-file>" i. Note the drive letter prefixing the full-filename 5. Now do a subst or a net use as follows: a. subst v: z:\directory b. net use w: file://%3cserver%3e/%3cshare%3e/%3cdirectory> 6. You can do both of these a. "cd /d v:" then "git status" b. "cd /d w:" then "git status" 7. However both of these FAIL: a. "cd /d v:" then "git add <v:\some-changed-file>" b. "cd /d w:" then "git add <w:\some-changed-file>" i. Note the drive letter prefixing the full-filename 8. Performing the above requests WITHOUT the drive letter prefixing the filename works! I assume that this is supposed to work and there is some subtle error merging the repository root and the filename-with-drive-prefix. Regards, Paul D.Smith.
