I am almost certain this is not a bug but a deficiency in my understanding. But I can't be certain. Here it goes...
I copied an existing and valid bare git repository to a brand new Windows 11 machine (10.0.7.181) into D:\gitDepot\test.git
The problem is that from any other machine on the LAN (Kubuntu 20.04, Raspberry Pi running buster, an M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey 12.6, and a Windows 10 box), I cannot clone it remotely. I made sure ssh works correctly on all machines. If I clone locally on the Windows 11 box where the repository resides, it works just fine. Version of git on the Mac is 2.30.1, on RBPi 2.20.1, the one on Linux is 2.25.1, and Windows 10 and Windows 11 are running the git version 2.38.1-6 I downloaded the day before yesterday. Since both Windows boxes are running the latest version of git (for Windows), I'll focus on these. Here is the output from trying from the Windows 10 machine via the LAN (but Linux, RBPi, and Mac are equivalent, modulo the dreaded backslash quirks on all non-Windows machines):
$ git clone 10.0.7.181:D:\gitDepot\test.git
Cloning into 'test'...
username@10.0.7.181's password:
fatal: ''D:\gitDepot\test.git'' 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.
However, if I fetch the repository "manually" via scp and then do a local clone it works fine (also from all machines):
$ scp -r 10.0.7.181:D:\gitDepot\test.git test.git
username@10.0.7.181's password:
config 100% 121 0.1KB/s 00:00
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pre-commit.sample 100% 1642 1.6KB/s 00:00
pre-push.sample 100% 1352 1.3KB/s 00:00
pre-rebase.sample 100% 4898 4.8KB/s 00:00
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update.sample 100% 3611 225.7KB/s 00:00
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packed-refs
$ git clone test.git
Cloning into 'test'...
done.
That tells me that test.git is (read) accessible via ssh with exactly that path and a valid (bare) git repository that can be successfully cloned locally, so it looks as if git was lying to me.
Just to make sure, I also executed git, git-upload-pack, and git-receive-pack via ssh to guarantee that I put them in the path that ssh sees on the remote machine:
$ ssh 10.0.7.181 git -h
username@10.0.7.181's password:
usage: git [-v | --version] [-h | --help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
[--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
[-p | --paginate | -P | --no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
[--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
[--super-prefix=<path>] [--config-env=<name>=<envvar>]
<command> [<args>]
These are common Git commands used in various situations:
start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
clone Clone a repository into a new directory
init Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
work on the current change (see also: git help everyday)
add Add file contents to the index
mv Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink
restore Restore working tree files
rm Remove files from the working tree and from the index
examine the history and state (see also: git help revisions)
bisect Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug
diff Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
grep Print lines matching a pattern
log Show commit logs
show Show various types of objects
status Show the working tree status
grow, mark and tweak your common history
branch List, create, or delete branches
commit Record changes to the repository
merge Join two or more development histories together
rebase Reapply commits on top of another base tip
reset Reset current HEAD to the specified state
switch Switch branches
tag Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG
collaborate (see also: git help workflows)
fetch Download objects and refs from another repository
pull Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch
push Update remote refs along with associated objects
'git help -a' and 'git help -g' list available subcommands and some
concept guides. See 'git help <command>' or 'git help <concept>'
to read about a specific subcommand or concept.
See 'git help git' for an overview of the system.
also
$ ssh 10.0.7.181 git-upload-pack -h
username@10.0.7.181's password:
usage: git upload-pack [<options>] <dir>
--stateless-rpc quit after a single request/response exchange
--strict do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no Git directory
--timeout <n> interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity
and
$ ssh 10.0.7.181 git-receive-pack -h
username@10.0.7.181's password:
usage: git receive-pack <git-dir>
-q, --quiet quiet
I also tried moving the directory gitDepot to the C: drive on the Windows 11 box - same result.
With that, I am at my wits end, as all the Internet had to offer (which was quite a bit) were fairly trivial but different cases (not to say that this one is not trivial, once I figured out what the problem is).
Is there anybody out there who can nudge me in the right direction? I'd highly appreciate it!
Of course, if this is a "valid bug," please let me know what info I can provide
to report it properly and potentially help investigate iti further.
Cheers
Ekkehard
