From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: RE: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:34:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5D60A90C93A45359EF00CC200C81561@black> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141204005443.GB200195@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian m. carlson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 19:55
>
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up.
> >
> > It seems to be a problem for others too.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Lindbergh
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07
> > To: cygwin
> >
> > Aha - you're right.
> >
> > It works fine on a local NTFS volume.
> >
> > I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a
> network drive
> > (on another Windows box).
> >
> > Is there a workaround? Why does this happen?
>
> I don't think anyone is sure. My wild guess is that there's something
> about the way that Cygwin wraps Windows calls that makes it
> fail in this
> case. It might be interesting to run the Windows and Cygwin versions
> under an strace equivalent and see where things differ.
[this was posted to the cygwin list]
http://nerdfever.com/files/strace.txt
>
> It's an interesting problem, but I don't have any Windows
> systems, so I
> can't look into it.
If it becomes a little less magic, I will chomp on the problem, but I cannot make a predictable test case.
-Jason
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 23:31 FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" Jason Pyeron
2014-12-04 0:54 ` brian m. carlson
2014-12-04 21:34 ` Jason Pyeron [this message]
2014-12-05 15:26 ` SPAM: " Jason Pyeron
2014-12-05 15:30 ` Jason Pyeron
2014-12-07 1:33 ` Jason Pyeron
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