Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > alternate: C:/Temp/repoorig/.git/objects > alternate: /c/Temp/repoorig/.git/objects > > This is the MSYS2/Cygwin absolute path with a "drive letter". > Unfortunately, this kind of path is unintelligible for Git for Windows. > It expects absolute paths to begin with drive letter-colon or a > double-slash or double-backslash. For this reason, it reports "unable to > normalize alternate object path". > > The conclusion is: Do not use two different flavors of Git on a > repository that is set up with a link to an alternate repository. I do not complain to the conclusion, and I do not use Windows, but it makes me wonder if there is a way to spell that full path that can be understood by both implementations. The two implementations are not incompatible in the actual object contents and refnames and other things in .git/ directory, are they? In short, does MSYS2/Cygwin understand paths in "C:/Temp/..." style, and if so, writing that out, even though it may not what it considers the native format, would make the world a happier place.
