Problem when setting up git repository with UNC path

Continua CI Discussion
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I am currently trying out Continua and want to set it up to connect to our git repository which is accessible through a Windows network share.

After trying out a number of variations of specifying the path I am still getting errors from Continua which tell me that the specified path is not a git repository.

The message I got was always similar to this:

Repository cannot be initialised: Running git.exe with arguments "clone file://\\\\Server\git\Repo E:\Continua\Rc\5b708ba0" failed and threw exception: "Running git.exe with arguments "clone file://\\\\Server\git\Repo E:\Continua\Rc\5b708ba0" failed with return code 128 and error output: "Cloning into 'E:\Continua\Rc\5b708ba0'...

fatal: '\\Server\git\Repo' 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.

 

I tried to clone the repo by hand using the command line and it worked just fine. Am I just missing something in my configuration or is this a bug?

 

2

Git is a bit fussy about slashes, backslashes need to be escaped, try

file://\\Server\git\Repo

or

file:////Server/git/Repo

Both worked fine for me.

3

Unfortunately those did not work either. I have been able to circumvent the problem by making the Repo available through HTTP however.