Problems with a git repo in Sharepoint documents library shared as drive

Question

My team is trialling the use of Sharepoint Online and Teams to replace a public network drive for our docs and work files. I'm running into a problem when trying to use git: creating the repo with git init works, but adding and committing files fails with an error:

fatal: cannot use .git/info/exclude as an exclude file

The repo in question is a very simple one, just 4 small files in a directory a couple of levels down from the root.

Are there known problems with using git on a shared document library, mapped as a network drive? I had a look at the list of limitations, and it doesn't seem like there should be problems.

At a previous job I had git repos in my OneDrive for Business, and it mostly worked fine (although I ran into intermittent sync glitches).

Answer 1

I would recommend using Azure DevOps or GitHub to host your repositories rather than a SharePoint document library. Microsoft recommend syncing SharePoint document libraries using the OneDrive for Business application rather than mapping a library to a network drive.

Answer 2

1.Add your SharePoint as windows drive in ms dos command prompt using below command.

net use z: https://xxx.xxx.com/xxx/xxx

2.Navigate to z drive and create a repo folder.

cd z:

makedir proj1

3.Create git repo

git init --bare

4.Navigate to local folder.

cd ”c:\repo"

5.Clone SharePoint repo in local folder.

git clone file://z:\proj1