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I'm having a little trouble with magit and the default-directory variable.

When calling M-x magit-status, an exception is thrown - Setting current directory: No such file or directory, /path/to/git/repo/^M/. I.e. there is an extra carriage return character inserted on the end of the path as though it were another directory level.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is not about carriage returns in a repository file, but rather the path to the repository. Emacs is running on windows, with git for windows.

Error trace below:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Setting current directory" "No such file or directory" "c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/")
  call-process("c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil "--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z")
  apply(call-process "c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil ("--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z"))
  process-file("c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil "--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z")
  apply(process-file "c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil ("--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z"))
  magit-process-file("c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil "--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z")
  apply(magit-process-file "c:/Program Files/Git/git-cmd.exe" nil (t nil) nil ("--no-pager" "--literal-pathspecs" "-c" "core.preloadindex=true" "-c" "log.showSignature=false" "-c" "i18n.logOutputEncoding=UTF-8" "config" "--list" "-z"))
  magit-git-insert("config" "--list" "-z")
  apply(magit-git-insert ("config" "--list" "-z"))
  magit-git-items("config" "--list" "-z")
  magit-config-get-from-cached-list("magit.extension")
  magit-get-all("magit.extension")
  magit-load-config-extensions()
  run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook special-mode-hook magit-mode-hook magit-status-mode-hook)
  apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook special-mode-hook magit-mode-hook magit-status-mode-hook))
  run-mode-hooks(magit-status-mode-hook)
  magit-status-mode()
  magit-setup-buffer-internal(magit-status-mode nil ((magit-buffer-diff-args ("--no-ext-diff")) (magit-buffer-diff-files nil) (magit-buffer-log-args ("-n256" "--decorate")) (magit-buffer-log-files nil)))
  magit-status-setup-buffer("c:/emacs/home/temp/")
  magit-status(nil ((4 . 4) (("c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/" . magit-toplevel) . "c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/") (("c:/emacs/home/temp/" . magit-toplevel) . "c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/") (("c:/emacs/home/temp/" "rev-parse" "--show-toplevel") . "\015")))
  funcall-interactively(magit-status nil ((4 . 4) (("c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/" . magit-toplevel) . "c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/") (("c:/emacs/home/temp/" . magit-toplevel) . "c:/emacs/home/temp/\015/") (("c:/emacs/home/temp/" "rev-parse" "--show-toplevel") . "\015")))
  call-interactively(magit-status record nil)
  command-execute(magit-status record)
  helm-M-x(nil #("magit-status" 0 12 (match-part "magit-status")))
  funcall-interactively(helm-M-x nil #("magit-status" 0 12 (match-part "magit-status")))
  call-interactively(helm-M-x nil nil)
  command-execute(helm-M-x)
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  • Is that actually the value of C-h v default-directory in that buffer? (You've mentioned the variable, but haven't confirmed that it's relevant). If the buffer you're calling magit-status from already has an invalid default-directory, then it's not really a Magit issue. If it's only the Magit status buffer that has the invalid value, please clarify.
    – phils
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 8:56
  • For extra context could you M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then add the stack trace to the question?
    – phils
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 8:56
  • Thanks for the response! default-directory seems to have the path as I would expect - no extra carriage returns. default-directory is a variable defined in ‘C source code’. Its value is "c:/emacs/home/temp/"
    – jgammon
    Commented Nov 1, 2019 at 1:36
  • Is there a git repo in current dir? Otherwise, what's the value of the variable magit-repository-directories?
    – JeanPierre
    Commented Nov 1, 2019 at 14:55
  • Current directory is a git repo (temp is just a git repo I setup for this question). Magit-repository-directories has a value of nil
    – jgammon
    Commented Nov 6, 2019 at 1:19

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Reset to default
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My guess is that third-party "fix and/or improve cygwin" package messes things up. Try with emacs -Q ... as documented here.

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