From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:01:44 +0200 Message-ID: <46BAADC8.9020003@trolltech.com> References: <20070807143616.GO9527@spearce.org> <20070807145825.GO21692@lavos.net> <66DD7425-6073-4CA8-BF01-BF07213A4804@zib.de> <30e4a070708071042g5623cb7ak724a8b8e588bd1da@mail.gmail.com> <07BB2580-4406-496F-8ACE-F6A03D1687BE@zib.de> <30e4a070708080650j5de7ee92p4acd7e82de7d9dff@mail.gmail.com> <30e4a070708080941j49b3d58cxc39bbe65f2fee9d5@mail.gmail.com> <75EB313E-807D-44FB-A186-A151F182B47B@zib.de> <2F00D32E-8D0C-48D6-86E1-6F6E7611E364@zib.de> <7E22DF40-1E28-4B8A-B132-18B05136B5E9@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig15B6B4894B3225C13DCB50A7" Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Mark Levedahl , Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Sebastian Schuberth To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 09 08:00:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJ14n-0000Yt-Tx for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:00:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765880AbXHIGAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:00:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761748AbXHIGAr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:00:47 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no ([62.70.27.18]:33196 "EHLO esparsett.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760907AbXHIGAq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:00:46 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8909C74306; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:00:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.215] (error.troll.no [10.3.4.215]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AE6741C2; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:00:44 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <7E22DF40-1E28-4B8A-B132-18B05136B5E9@zib.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXU1NTAwMABAQGsrKyE hIQwMDAEBAS8hGUfAAACQUlEQVQ4jV2TS47cMAxEKSDZW1CfwMB4PYLkrKchsveJRR2gEen+R0hR 9vziBmahhyqSRQ4NfF1FmIv3dH4usNAGoFprBVguQJmZ1nX0XiHgEukTCK3TairiZeXcVGzmZIoU 3738pehdVbiU9KFgMQWeZ1fpHZDfRS4rPb3eQVaZChGx4ikt5GDkAZQ2KKohzjklno4+iJpVhxka ZjSpasJ4gdGaEQMWTMjRa5uTqza0XDJjzhIdzGTMrqoopimoIPCKZtVOq265MAXpMLXycmVl2Y8C oE1FkT/faKauOjYoHJyOxHfvixjowvI0xZJsKykubgLYzuJMdBO+L86TjxfQ9hz9jpSudbnXXzRm tor5i3MUONpOfARAhlWbzWF7OhP2eSeEW9HUBNiHOxUM8HLWHhUAj3NZNsdqRZpNA+DJ+XlX+Qc9 Z4ZjHX8LRUzgTBBef84NQoCMOcS0+BMsj3klbTzRri03ugXr9em1GfgzDAyEn4J3fvFI5YwdTrYu 1ntAY1h5ysM2OMGm+cBOocCXHisAHu2PagnLghoG2krz8bzsA4fj7KxCGk+63jt+DDCtYjbFNkHD nRwpRqsQYx5WYzsbm/eBfn0I4TbOGvMWqhQAiEDzNs4apumCI0x2OyHtY7uAlZff/sanbH9+AGT1 KOEmUlJISdYPgEgehw+cTZEf6xeFyoEjCPgv+A62KhW3EOy9PL7WmCBMRWmfYN0OqW9krzl/Ay91 75HMqfDtP8UFckFUX2rwrm/kTVB2gH+hdu4avZVCuAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig15B6B4894B3225C13DCB50A7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> I have two 'crashes' during installation. I attached snapshots of >> the requesters. I don't know how to copy text from the installer. >> Therefore I attached snapshots. >=20 > Hmm... how do I get started? I naively chose cygwin as my shell. I > set >=20 > export PATH=3D$PATH:/cygdrive/c/msysgit/bin >=20 > then I tried >=20 > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git=20 > c:/msysgit/bin/git-clone: line 214: git-init: command not found >=20 > Maybe it's related to the errors during installation? >=20 > How can I build and install git manually, based on the result of > GitMe-3's basic setup? Ok, first, which system is this? Windows 2000/XP/Vista? (The Gitme installer doesn't work on old ones for now) Try running gitme from a terminal. Download gitme-3.exe into C:\temp,=20 open a native terminal (Start - Run - Type "cmd" ); then in the=20 terminal, type: C:\temp> set PATH=3D%WINDIR%\system32;%WINDIR% C:\temp> gitme-3 Does it work then? If so, the problem is likely to be that you have=20 Cygwin in the system path, which is not advisable/compatible with MSys. --=20 =2Emarius --------------enig15B6B4894B3225C13DCB50A7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGuq3IKzzXl/njVP8RAmfqAJ9QQNP+MBkvI7yvVJIIA7N95VobMwCg109W qU0tkdJOaiWh7ZWmL9bm+pE= =kole -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig15B6B4894B3225C13DCB50A7--