Make msysgit work with cygwin ssh?

Question

git-upload-pack errors occur when sshing into cygwin. sshd in cygwin does not take paths from .bash_profile as expected in a *nix environment.

What is the way to remedy this and make msysgit work properly with cygwin bash and cygwin ssh?

Answer 1

I looked every where with people getting git-upload-pack missing errors like myself and came up with this.

Basicly this just sets Cygwins ssh path to have msysgit it it

• Install msysgit (use git bash only should be enough we don't need the git.cmd thing for cygwin)

• Install cygwin search for ssh and tick/check it.

  ssh-host-config -y 
  

  I didn't bother setting the CYGWIN var to anything the defaults seemed correct.

  cygrunsrv.exe -R sshd 
  

remove the service that was created in the process

    ssheNv="/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/bin"

    mSysgit="/usr/local/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/libexec/git-core"

now add these two strings to the path below:

    cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -D -e "PATH=$ssheNv:$mSysgit"

    cygrunsrv.exe -S 

start the service (use -E to stop again if you want)

from another PC with msysgit

git clone  ssh://dude@hostIPetc'/Documents and Settings/blabla/myrepo.git'

For this people that didn't have git-upload-pack in their path well this fixes it. I don't have to install cygwin git just to satisfy paths!

Question though can any one figure out how to point to cygwin paths "/cygdrive/d/" etc? right now only / works and that means C:\

If anyone thinks this is all to sloppy and one should just use cygwin git please say so.

hmm http://www.grumpydev.com/2011/01/19/switching-from-cygwin-to-msysgit-git-thinks-everything-has-been-modified/ MSysGit “fakes” filemodes is that a reason to switch to cygwin or is it helpfull on windows...