[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkGCmVc5qIJaQQgG82Hc5zzBdAVdhe2JEM"
 nickname="Bruno"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2013-10-16T22:47:46Z"
 content="""
There's no other repo yet. I have the same problem when I try to sync between two repos but I simplified the instructions to reproduce the bug easily.

Here's the instructions on Debian :
[[!format sh \"\"\"
bruno@debian:~$ mkdir annex
bruno@debian:~$ cd annex
bruno@debian:~/annex$ git init
Initialized empty Dépôt git dans /home/bruno/annex/.git/
bruno@debian:~/annex$ git annex init
init  ok
(Recording state in git...)
bruno@debian:~/annex$ echo test > test
bruno@debian:~/annex$ git annex add .
add test (checksum...) ok
(Recording state in git...)
bruno@debian:~/annex$ git commit -a -m added
[master (root-commit) 631049d] added
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 120000 test
bruno@debian:~/annex$ git annex sync
commit
ok
bruno@debian:~/annex$\"\"\"]]

It seems --git-dir wants 'c:/...' instead of 'c:\\...'.

[[!format sh \"\"\"
C:\Users\Bruno\annex>git --git-dir=C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex\\.git --work-tree=C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex add -f test
fatal: unable to access '../../../../C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex\\.git/config': Invalid argument

C:\Users\Bruno\annex>git --git-dir=C:/Users/Bruno/annex/.git --work-tree=C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex add -f test

C:\Users\Bruno\annex>\"\"\"]]

It's weird that I don't have any problem with the following command:
[[!format sh \"\"\"C:\Users\Bruno\annex>git --git-dir=C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex\\.git --work-tree=C:\\Users\\Bruno\\annex config -l
core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
[...]\"\"\"]]

Maybe there's a problem with `git version 1.8.4.msysgit.0`.
"""]]