Doesn't work with WSL2

[anpin]

Just installed the latest insider build 18970 with Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2 with .zsh and running wslgit.exe from PowerShell just opens a new bash session. Please see screenshot below

Edit: tried to set Windows environment WSLGIT_USE_INTERACTIVE_SHELL variable to 0 and it didn't works the same way

[andy-5]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Does manually running

wsl bash -c "git --version"

from cmd or PowerShell still work with WSL2, or were there any changes to the command line interface?

You may also try an unreleased alpha build of wslgit, which changed/unified the invocation of git.

[anpin]

Manually running wsl bash -c "git --version" in PowerShell gives me a version of git installed in wsl and returns back to PowerShell. I ended up installing git on windows, but I will try to use the alpha build when I have time.

[phox4ever]

I'm on 191025 and wslgit works for me. My mount points are on / and not /mnt/c. I've cloned a repository into my home directory, which is then shared to\\wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home\me\something. I've then linked /mnt/c/www/something => /home/me/www/something and C:\www\something => \\wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home\me\www\something.

Now I can use PhpStorm with the project directory C:\www\something (it doesn't allow paths with an '$') and C:\Tools\wslgit\wslgit.exe as git executable. For PhpStorm's git test to work, I also needed to link /mnt/C/Users => /C/Users.

Maybe wslgit could offer some options to configure those paths. So creating symlinks won't be necessary. Also a way to use a non-default distro.

[stevium]

@phox4ever I'm not sure that this is possible like you described.

I created a symlink:

ln -s /home/me/www/something /mnt/c/www/something which creates a file with the name something in C:\www\something

Then I tried:

mklink /d C:\www\something \\wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home\me\www\something and it complains that the file with the name something already exists.

Can you please describe the exact commands you used to create these mappings?

[phox4ever]

@stevium My mount root is '/', not '/mnt/'. Also, I was using wslgit version 0.8.0. The latest version uses a different method of handling paths. I'm currently running PhpStorm within WSL2 and x410 which works straightforward (until you put your Laptop to sleep...).

My /etc/wsl.conf:

#enable extra metadata options by default
[automount]
enabled = true
root = /
options = "metadata,umask=22,fmask=11"
mountFsTab = false

[stevium]

@phox4ever Ah I see now, having the root mounted on / will not create a /mnt/c/... symlink in C:\... directory and wslgit mappings would still work. Nice idea! Sorry for not noticing at first.

Yes, now when wslgit is updated we don't need this mapping anymore. I tried the develop branch, and looks pretty functional.

Thanks for helping!

[phox4ever]

@stevium Version 0.9 is using wslpath, which cannot handle UNC paths, symlinks to UNC paths and network drives. But I'm thinking of wrapping wslpath in a bash script which overrides certain Windows paths to local Unix paths on the fly. Or is there an option coming up to create those path mappings for wslgit?

[stevium]

I only had problems with 0.9 when I wanted to use it with IntelliJ. That's why I decided to try the develop branch. And it seems to be handling UNC paths (\\wsl$\...) pretty fine. I was able to execute all the essential git commands, and even use Intellij on a large git project with a lot of submodules.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see that these mappings are necessary anymore...

What exact command is failing for you?

[phox4ever]

Not sure about IntelliJ, but for PhpStorm, using UNC paths directly is not possible. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-123273. I haven't tried with version 2020 yet though. So even if wslgit can handle \wsl$, PhpStorm still needs a Symlink. Not sure if this works also.

[stevium]

Most of the UNC issues were resolved with 2020.1 release: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-197573 I've tried Intellij Idea, Rider, and Clion 2020.1 all of them supporting wsl2 and wslgit. So I would expect PhpStorm also to support it.

[phox4ever]

I've tested it with PhpStorm 2020.1 and I can confirm it works with the develop branch! Thank you.

[andy-5]

The changes from the develop branch have now been released as version 1.0, so I think this can be closed. Feel free to open another issue if you encounter any further problems.