Cygwin git dies silently

Cygwin git dies silently

[John Ousterhout]

I am trying to use the standard version of git that comes with Cygwin
(Cygwin says it's version 1.6.1.2-1), but when I invoke git from
Cygwin bash nothing happens: the shell prompt appears again with no
other output. I tried several different sets of git arguments, but
they all behave the same way. "echo $?" says that git is exiting with
status 53.  Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be causing
this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

-John-

Re: Cygwin git dies silently

[Clemens Buchacher]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:48:42PM -0700, John Ousterhout wrote:

> "echo $?" says that git is exiting with status 53.

Git never returns 53. Googling for exit status 53 turns up some hits [1].

Clemens

[1] http://www.google.com/search?&q=exit+code+53

Re: Cygwin git dies silently

[Clemens Buchacher]

[re-adding the list to Cc for future reference]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:37:43PM -0700, John Ousterhout wrote:

> your message eventually led me to the problem, which
> is that somehow I didn't have libz installed.  Once I installed libz
> git is now working.

I'm surprised that cygwin did not take care of installing the dependencies
for you. After all, you were installing the version "that came with cygwin"?
If that is the case, please file a bug report with cygwin, because it's
clearly a problem with their packaging.

Thanks,
Clemens