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

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

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Tried Junio's latest suggestion. The resulting output and contents of
the trash are attached as a tar.gz. Thanks for all your help guys, I'm
sorry I can't contribute more but as I mentioned, I'm nowhere near
proficient in c/c++ or the internals of Git.

Paul

On Jan 16, 2008 10:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Paul Umbers" <paul.umbers@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > OK, I think this worked (I'm a Java man, not C/C++). I downloaded the
> > latest 1.5.3 source from the git repository and ran "make" with
> > GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose --debug". Here's the output:
> >
> > paulumbers@Devteam29 ~/workspace/git/git-1.5.3/t
> > $ make
> > *** t0000-basic.sh ***
> > *   ok 1: .git/objects should be empty after git init in an empty repo.
> > *   ok 2: .git/objects should have 3 subdirectories.
> > *   ok 3: git update-index without --add should fail adding.
> > *   ok 4: git update-index with --add should succeed.
> > * FAIL 5: writing tree out with git write-tree
> >         tree=$(git write-tree)
>
> Often the first error is the most interesting, as your build is
> failing the most basic operation (like creating a tree), and
> later parts of the test uses the tree to validate other aspects
> of your build.
>
> After seeing the above error, running the test with -i (stop
> immediately on failure):
>
>         $ cd t
>         $ sh -x ./t0000-basic.sh -i -v
>
> and looking at the exact command that fails is the usual
> approach for debugging something like this.  During that
> debugging session, the contents of the directory t/trash (which
> is where the test script runs) left by the failed test is what
> we often do.
>
>



-- 
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
--- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

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