Mount external drive on windows7 for git

msysgit

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

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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.

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fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

This tells you that the directory you're in is not a git repository. Before you can add remote servers, commit things and so you must have a git repository created.

In a git repository there's a directory (which can be hidden) named .git. It contains metadata on the repository and all the data regarding the checked files.

To create it type git init in the directory you wish to have a git repository. Then you could add remote servers and perform operations on it.

Using Git Bash Here in Console2

Here's what I did (your paths with almost certainly vary):

Create a new tab in Console with the following values:
- Title: Git Bash
- Icon: C:\Program Files\Git\etc\git.ico
- Shell "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i
- Startup dir: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
Create a new key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\ called git_shell2 with a data value of Git Console Here
Create a new key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\git_shell2\ called command with a data value of "C:\Users\charlesr\My Dropbox\Software\Console2\Console.exe" -t "Git Bash" -d "%1"

This does the trick.

Instead of doing steps 2 and 3 above, you could just copy the following into a .reg file (modify the paths to suit your own config first) then import into the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\git_shell2]
@="Git Console Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\git_shell2\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\charlesr\\My Dropbox\\Software\\Console2\\Console.exe\" -t \"Git Bash\" -d \"%1\""

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