Source browser fails with SMB hosted git repository

[jan.hurst@…]

I have configured my Trac, TracGit on a Windows XP + Apache machine, and a git repository that lives on a Windows hosted SMB share.

I can use trac-admin $ENV repository add/remove/list/resync with no problems and the resync appears to work correctly.

However when I got to the web interface, the browse source tab is not available. When I manually enter ​http://my_env_url/browser I receive:

GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

Similarly, in the trac.log file (with DEBUG loggin) I see:

2011-12-28 10:50:31,065 Trac[git_fs] INFO: detected GIT version 1.7.7.1.msysgit.0
2011-12-28 10:50:31,065 Trac[PyGIT] ERROR: GIT control files missing in '\\smbserver\share\repo.git'
2011-12-28 10:50:31,065 Trac[main] ERROR: Internal Server Error: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\trac\web\main.py", line 511, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\trac\web\main.py", line 237, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\trac\versioncontrol\web_ui\browser.py", line 341, in process_request
    reponame, repos, path = rm.get_repository_by_path(path)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\trac\versioncontrol\api.py", line 552, in get_repository_by_path
    return (reponame, self.get_repository(reponame),
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\trac\versioncontrol\api.py", line 526, in get_repository
    repos = connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, repoinfo.copy())
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracext\git\git_fs.py", line 244, in get_repository
    use_committer_time=self._use_committer_time,
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracext\git\git_fs.py", line 360, in __init__
    git_fs_encoding=git_fs_encoding).getInstance()
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracext\git\PyGIT.py", line 139, in __init__
    i = Storage(repo, log, git_bin, git_fs_encoding)
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracext\git\PyGIT.py", line 252, in __init__
    raise GitError("GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?")
GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?
2011-12-28 10:50:31,111 Trac[chrome] DEBUG: Prepare chrome data for request
2011-12-28 10:50:31,127 Trac[PyGIT] ERROR: GIT control files missing in '\\smbserver\share\repo.git'
2011-12-28 10:50:31,127 Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor BrowserModule: GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

If I take a copy of the git repository to a local dir I end up with some Windows permission problems that I also have yet to resolve (fairly sure this is just getting the right system account with the right permissions on the local folder)

Any suggestions would be great?!

[Ryan J Ollos]

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