Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Ain Valtin
> > (This could go to msysgit mailing list, so I add a CC) > (and I think, it is a known issue) > > As a work around, could you try this: >> Downgrading to msysgit 1.8.3 fixes my problem. > and tell us if this helps you? Yes, 1.8.3 seems to work (did initial commit successfully). ain -- To unsubs

Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2013-10-19 10.49, Ain Valtin wrote: > Hi > > I want to use git in a VirtualBox guest so that the repository is on > the host drive. So in the VB settings for the guest I set up a shared > folder "gitRepos" to /home/ain with full access rights. Then in the > guest OS (Windows XP) I map this shar

Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Fredrik Gustafsson
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:45:46PM +0300, Ain Valtin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > > > Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a > > bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over > > the network and no

Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Ain Valtin
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a > bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over > the network and not local between virt. machines). > > I would advise not to use this se

Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Fredrik Gustafsson
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:49:27AM +0300, Ain Valtin wrote: > Hi > > I want to use git in a VirtualBox guest so that the repository is on > the host drive. So in the VB settings for the guest I set up a shared > folder "gitRepos" to /home/ain with full access rights. Then in the > guest OS (Window

Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Duy Nguyen
There seems to be some regression fixes regarding dos drives. The one that caught my eyes is 7fbd422 (relative_path should honor dos-drive-prefix - 2013-10-14) but it's not released yet. And I'm not sure if msys branch picks it up yet even if you want to rebuild and test it yourself. Copying Jiang

separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

2013-10-19 Thread Ain Valtin
Hi I want to use git in a VirtualBox guest so that the repository is on the host drive. So in the VB settings for the guest I set up a shared folder "gitRepos" to /home/ain with full access rights. Then in the guest OS (Windows XP) I map this shared folder as G drive. Now in the project dir I exec