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

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

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Sorry, screwed up the log.tar.gz ... try this one.

On Jan 16, 2008 11:31 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Umbers, Wed, Jan 16, 2008 16:42:46 +0100:
> > 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:
> >
> ...
> > * expecting success: tree=$(git write-tree)
> > error: invalid object e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
> > fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
> > * FAIL 5: writing tree out with git write-tree
> >         tree=$(git write-tree)
>
> Ok, since you managed to compile it, could you please try to strace
> git-add? Cygwins strace is a bit unusual, but strace --help can
> provide enough information to configure it to trace filesystem
> operations.
>
> In the top-level of Git source directory:
>
>     $ uname -a > somefile
>     $ strace -o log -f -m syscall ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) add somefile
>     $ git ls-files -s somefile
>
> or
>
>     $ strace -o log -f -m syscall ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) hash-object somefile
>
> Than check if the sha1file is missing and send in the log.
>
>



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

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