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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:48:07 +0100
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Paul Umbers, Mon, Jan 14, 2008 23:21:28 +0100:
> The "mount" command tells me everything I have is mounted in binmode.

Now that's unusual, unless you had "Text Mode" selected in the installer

> Are you saying I need to make sure the repository directory is mounted
> in text-mode (for Windows compatibility)? I just reinstalled cygwin,
> selecting text-mode as the default.

No, text-mode is definitely wrong for almost anything. It just
corrupts data. Try activating binary mode.