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m02ph3u5
m02ph3u5

Reputation: 3161

git clone fails on windows, local network

After I've wasted about two hours trying to clone a git repository on my fresh Windows 10 installation I felt like I had to share my solution with the outer world.

Setting is this: I created a bare repository on my NAS (didn't name it *.git since I didn't know that convention existed). After a few pushes from my Windows 8.1 (and other) I upgraded to Windows 10. Sadly that killed my project located at the desktop (can't find it in Windows.old). "No big deal", I thought, "got my stuff on the NAS, right". So I tried (having git for windows):

git clone ssh://myuser@nasip/path/to/project

which gave me ...does not appear to be a git repository ... mhmmm. Okay maybe ssh ain't working, let's check something else:

git clone git://nasip/path/to/project

Same thing there. Okay, lets try http::// ... nothing. https://? Certificate error. Well, at least.

Okay then, let's try to drop the IP (could be some firewall stuff, right?). Let's use \\nas\path\to\project instead.

git clone git://\\nas\path\to\project
git clone git://\\\\nas\\path\\to\\project
git clone "git://\\nas\path\to\project"
git clone git://nas/path/to/project

Nope, nope, nope, nope. How do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 258

Answers (1)

m02ph3u5
m02ph3u5

Reputation: 3161

What finally worked was this:

git clone \file:////nas/path/to/project

Upvotes: 1

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