From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Pyeron" 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 Organization: PD Inc Message-ID: References: <64C98FC352BD45EC9632202946A081E1@black> <20141204005443.GB200195@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> Reply-To: "brian m. carlson" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "'brian m. carlson'" To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 04 22:34:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwe2R-0004xW-40 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:34:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933207AbaLDVeL (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:34:11 -0500 Received: from mail.pdinc.us ([67.90.184.27]:60632 "EHLO mail.pdinc.us" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932094AbaLDVeJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:34:09 -0500 Received: from black (five-58.pdinc.us [192.168.5.58]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.pdinc.us (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id sB4LY3CC009130; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:34:04 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20141204005443.GB200195@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> Thread-Index: AdAPXRtpqnFJ0p5ySsSWNqpxnc3bEwArKJ3g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4913 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > -----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 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.