Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Paul Umbers, Wed, Jan 16, 2008 16:42:46 +0100:
> OK, I think this worked (I'm a Java man, not C/C++). I downloaded the
> latest 1.5.3 source from the git repository and ran "make" with
> GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose --debug". Here's the output:
> 
...
> * expecting success: tree=$(git write-tree)
> error: invalid object e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
> fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
> * FAIL 5: writing tree out with git write-tree
>         tree=$(git write-tree)

Ok, since you managed to compile it, could you please try to strace
git-add? Cygwins strace is a bit unusual, but strace --help can
provide enough information to configure it to trace filesystem
operations.

In the top-level of Git source directory:

    $ uname -a > somefile
    $ strace -o log -f -m syscall ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) add somefile
    $ git ls-files -s somefile

or

    $ strace -o log -f -m syscall ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) hash-object somefile

Than check if the sha1file is missing and send in the log.