mount external drive on windows7 for git

I love my GitBash window because it helps maintain the illusion that I am not on Windows 7. I can type ls /c/ and see C:/. This has worked fine for me. Now I would like to create a git backup on an external drive that is not underneath C:. I plug in the drive, Windows assigned it "G:" but now, how do I tell Mingw32 to know about it?

I'd like to use $ git remote add backup /tmp/backup from this excellent answer but change /tmp to G:

$ git remote add backup /G/myrepo  ...
$ git push backup
fatal: 'C:/prog/Git/G/myrepo' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I'm not sure what information is useful.

$ git --version
git version 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0
$ ls G:
ls: G:: No such file or directory

msysgit

user333947

Posted 2011-10-03T15:32:50.263

Reputation: 73

2Why are you fighting your OS? – SLaks – 2011-10-03T15:34:46.743

you are aware that by adding the git bin dir to the PATH you can just use cmd and type stuff like git remote add g:/myrepo ? – stijn – 2011-10-03T15:39:23.357

I'm not sure what you are saying. git's bin is in my PATH but I couldn't get "ls G:/" to work. Thanks. – user333947 – 2011-10-03T15:49:13.023

in the windows command line it's not ls but dir g: – stijn – 2011-10-04T06:42:43.790

Answers

Go to Disk Management in Computer Management, right-click the drive in question, click Change Drive Letters and Paths, and mount it to a folder in your C: drive.

SLaks

Posted 2011-10-03T15:32:50.263

Reputation: 7 596

thank you. I don't want to tell you how long I googled around to try to figure this out. – user333947 – 2011-10-03T15:47:30.483

You're welcome. You should accept this answer by clicking the hollow check.

– SLaks – 2011-10-03T15:48:57.853

Git Bash doesn't dynamically "mount" drives, so you need to close all Git Bash instances, then start a new instance. It should then appear under /g.

Source: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13133

joshdoe

Posted 2011-10-03T15:32:50.263

Reputation: 161