I have a windows 2003 box with an ssh server setup. I have msysgit (git version 1.6.2) installed both locally and on the server.
The server has the following absolute path to my repos:
e:\vc\git\myrepo.git
when a user logs in he/she will be put in the following working directory:
e:\vc\git\
When running the following cmd on my dev machine:
git clone ssh://myuser@myip/myrepo.git testrepo
I get the following error:
fatal: ''/myrepo.git'' does not appear to be a git repository
According to my ssh logs it appears that git is executing this cmd on the server:
'cmd.exe /c git-upload-pack '/myrepo.git''
Executing that command locally (on the server) fails for the same reason. I'm thinking the problem is related to git prefixing the path with a '/'. How do I tell git not to do this? Should this be working?
Note: git-upload-pack is working because I added \gitinstallpath\libexec\git-core to the path. Apparently this is a bug and will be fixed in the future, this was my work around.
I resolved this by switching my ssh server from winssh to openssh (via the cygwin layer). I was able to connect fine (as noted above) using winsshd, but winsshd wasn't correctly handling paths prefixed with "/". I could probably get winsshd to work, but switching to cygwin and openssh was faster.
Here's a good blog post to kick start the setup if your in a similar situation: