I've seen this question on SE, this other question on SuperUser and this question on AskUbuntu, but they seem to side step my situation.
I have a shared folder hosted on windows. I've created a git repo (with --bare option) there to kick off a project.
On a local folder with windows, I've managed to clone the repo with:
git clone \\<ip address>\shared_folder_name\name_of_folder_with_git_repo
And I'm able to push normally.
Then on linux, I've cloned it successfully with:
git clone ~/.gvfs/smb-share:server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo
Looks great, but I cannot push from linux. The erro message shown is:
remote: error: object directory /home/my_username/.gvfs/smb-share does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
remote: error: object directory server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
remote: error: object directory /home/my_username/.gvfs/smb-share does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
remote: error: object directory server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
remote: error: object directory refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
remote: fatal: bad object HEAD
error: object directory /home/my_username/.gvfs/smb-share does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
error: object directory server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates.
error: object directory refs/heads/master does not point to a valid object!
fatal: bad object HEAD
To /home/my_username/.gvfs/smb-share:server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo
! [remote rejected] master -> master (missing necessary objects)
error: failed to push some refs to '/home/my_username/.gvfs/smb-share:server=<ip address>,share=shared_folder_name/name_of_folder_with_git_repo'
In the remote repository, .git/objects/info/ is an empty folder.
I've tried adding different remotes, but to no avail. I was hoping the lack of an smb helper would not be a concern, otherwise I would not have been able to clone.
I need to find a method to be able to push relatively normally to the repo on this shared folder, preferably without requiring repeated usage of sudo.