Can't detect current directory

[VarunAgw]

1. I installed it
2. Ran cd /D d:\www\wm
3. Ran git status

I got

fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /mnt)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

[andy-5]

Is your drive D: mounted in WSL? Because network drives, removable devices, etc. are not automatically available in WSL.

Does wsl /bin/bash -c 'ls -la /mnt/d/www/wm' work inside Windows CMD/PowerShell? And is there a .git directory in the output?

What is the output of wslpath -au 'D:\www\wm' from within WSL?

If D: is a local hard drive and any of these fails, it would be interesting to know whether you use WSL1 or WSL2 and which Linux distribution is used.

[VarunAgw]

Hi @andy-5

Thanks for the reply

Does wsl /bin/bash -c 'ls -la /mnt/d/www/wm' work inside Windows CMD/PowerShell? And is there a .git directory in the output?

Yes and yes

$ wslpath -au 'D:\www\wm'
wslpath: D:\www\wm

It's WSL 1 and Ubuntu 22

I should add it's not a local drive but a subst partition. wslgit works fine on C: Drive though

$ ls /d -alh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 11 18:14 /d -> /mnt/d/

$ ls /mnt/d -alh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 28 2021 /mnt/d -> /mnt/c/Work/

[andy-5]

Your output

$ wslpath -au 'D:\www\wm'
wslpath: D:\www\wm

indicates that wslpath does not work. A valid output would be something like /mnt/d/www/wm.

So it seems this is an issue with wslpath, which cannot correctly handle the subst partition.