Question

I have the following setup:

s:/git/java/myproj.git with

git --bare init

s:/_java/myproj/.git with

git init, git add .

I added

git remote add origin s:/git/java/myproj.git 

and tried to do:

git push origin master

And am getting:

error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork

Why does git try to use ssh? I think I read that git accepts local paths on any command that specifies url.

Fixed: it has to do with a requirement to use cygwin drive path.

Answer 1

Cygwin doesn’t understand drive letters with colons, so ssh thinks you are trying to contact a host named s (with s:/git/...). Instead, try:

git remote add origin /cygdrive/s/git/java/myproj.git

The key is to use something that looks like a Unix path name, rather than a hostname:pathname pair.