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Reputation: 1012

Does git on cygwin support repositories on Windows network shares?

I tried to set up a bare git repo for backup, as proposed in nes1983's reply to this question.

I am using git on cygwin. My local repository is on /cygdrive/C/my-project. When I set up my backup repository on the same disk, everything works fine.

However, if I set up the bare repo on a network drive /cygdrive/H/backup-repo, I get the following error:

bash-4.1$ git push backup
Counting objects: 101, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (85/85), done.
Writing objects: 100% (101/101), 62.60 KiB, done.
Total 101 (delta 17), reused 0 (delta 0)
error: unpack should have generated 1f2087f7984f90b46a9cf90990d3399debedd3bc, but I can't find it!
To /cygdrive/H/backup-repo
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (bad pack)
error: failed to push some refs to '/cygdrive/H/backup-repo'

Are there any known limitations of git with Windows network drives, and are there any workarounds?

EDIT: I just found out: If I try calling the command git push backup again, it succeeds at the second or third try. However, calling the command again seems to be a bad solution, as I guess my repository might be corrupted when I get the message failed to push some refs. Any ideas what's happening here?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1092

Answers (1)

Andrew Aylett
Andrew Aylett

Reputation: 40740

I've had problems trying to push to repositories over the network using Cygwin. Pulling has always worked, so I've tended to use that as a workaround.

If your workflow won't support that, you might find that setting up a git server allows you to get things working -- Gerrit works on Windows.

Upvotes: 1

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