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Bug 365055

Summary: Cloning a git repository to a network drive fails
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: willem.ligtenberg
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: twolf
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description willem.ligtenberg CLA 2011-11-29 09:25:10 EST 
Build Identifier: I20110613-1736

When trying to clone a remote git repo to a network drive it fails at the end with the following error:
Exception caught during execution of fetch command

When using a repository folder on the C drive everything works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use some network drive folder as the git repo folder
2. clone a remote folder to the network drive
3. fails
4. use c:\git as the default repo folder
5. repeat 2.
6. works!
Comment 1 willem.ligtenberg CLA 2011-11-29 09:26:17 EST 
Created attachment 207653 [details]
stacktrace of the error
Comment 2 Thomas Wolf CLA 2017-09-01 11:24:45 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 319233 ***