Use UNC path to store Stash Home on windows

Paul Becotte2

I got our networked storage for Stash set up finally. I copied the stash-home directory to the new location, updated the environment variable and started the server. However, whenever Stash tries to enter a git command there is an error message

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe" clone --bare -
-shared \\drive\stash\stash-home\data\repositories\24 \\drive\stash\stas
h-home\data\repositories\51
Cloning into bare repository '\\drive\stash\stash-home\data\repositories\51'
...
fatal: '\drive\stash\stash-home\data\repositories\24' does not appear to be
a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I logged into the machine, and found that

>git clone \\drive\stash\stash-home\data\repositories\24

has that error message but

>git clone //drive/stash/stash-home/data/repositories/24

works perfectly. I tried setting the STASH_HOME variable to both //drive/stash/stash-home and \\drive\stash\stash-home, but both options seemed to work the same. How could I overcome this so that the git repos are on our backed up storage?

Paul Becotte2

Unfortunately, if Stash is running non-interactively as a service, mapping a network drive is not an option.

As it turns out, there is a relatively simple workaround for this. Use the mklink command to create a symbolic link to the networked location, and then point Stash at the symlink.