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

["Paul Umbers" <paul.umbers@gmail.com>]

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Try this ... test.tar (from within cygwin).

On Jan 15, 2008 2:20 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Umbers, Tue, Jan 15, 2008 21:12:45 +0100:
> > >
> > > Does the object exists at all? Try
> > >
> > >     ls -l .git/d9/b06fceac52f6c24357e6a7f85c601088381152
> > >
> > > Is it possible to get a hold of this repo (just the .git directly
> > > after "git add .")? It would be interesting to see the nature of the
> > > corruption.
> > >
> > git ls (see below) returns nothing - it looks like the object doesn't
> > exist at all. I've attached a .zip of the entire test directory (one
>
> zip is a bit lying: it does not keep the attributes of the files the
> way cygwin programs see them. For instance, it not known whether the
> hooks (.git/hooks) where executable at the time.
>
> > text file plus .git). This is after "git init" followed by "git add ."
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think it has failed already at "git add". From looking at the code
> it is hard for the current git-add (builtin-add.c) to fail silently.
>
> Hmm... What "git version" returns for you? (the .git/config contains
> filemode=true, which cygwin breaks every time).
>
> Of course, it would be interesting to know if the current git works
> for you. Or the MinGW port:
>
>     http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
>
> It used to conflict with cygwin, though.
>
> If the current git fails, I'd suggest to instrument write_sha1_file in
> sha1_file.c and see if it really manages to create temporary file and
> rename it to sha1 file (that d9/b06fceac52f6c24357e6a7f85c601088381152).
> I suspect either rename or link failing silently (IOW, it fails to
> create the new name under objects/d9/ but returns 0(no error) anyway).
>
>



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Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP
paul.umbers@gmail.com

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