In trying to resolve the issue I was having for: managing website on windows using git, I installed Cygwin openssh and Git for Windows (msysgit) on a Windows 2008 server (let's call this myserver).
I have a bare git repo setup at the cygwin path /var/git/example.git, which maps to c:\cygwin\var\git\example.git on Windows.
I have a user git that has permission on the repo's folders.
I am able to login with git using key-based authentication to myserver from my XP workstation using Putty. I have the key opened in pageant.
I am able to use cygwin style paths in Putty, so for example cd /var/git/example.git gets me to my bare repo.
However, I have a problem when I use Git Bash (MingW32) and attempt to do:
git clone ssh://git@myserver/var/git/example.git
I get the response:
Cloning into example...
fatal: '/var/git/example.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
When I try:
git clone ssh://git@myserver:c:/cygwin/var/git/example.git
It works and the repo gets cloned.
Cloning into example...
remote: Counting objects: 384, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (288/288), done.
remote: Total 384 (delta 85), reused 359 (delta 73)
Receiving objects: 100% (384/384), 51.72 MiB | 201 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (85/85), done.
However, if I then try to push using:
cd example
git push
It fails:
git: '/cygwin/var/git/example.git' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
So how do I make this work so I can push/pull/clone? Ideally I would like to be able to use the Cygwin path style, eg. git clone ssh://git@myserver/var/git/example.git.
Dunno if this was resolved, but I have finally succeeded in getting this to work and have shared my answer on the other thread: