From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Umbers" Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help! Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:32:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080114202932.GA25130@steel.home> <20080116183124.GA3181@steel.home> <20080116191737.GD3181@steel.home> <20080116234527.GA3499@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Alex Riesen" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 23:33:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFdIt-0005Dy-0K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:33:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759388AbYAQWc4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:32:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757711AbYAQWcz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:32:55 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:14512 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757667AbYAQWcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:32:54 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1334335wah.23 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:32:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=65jazrdW6n0JXnYxXaqR8sphqPip2npspz4JM6KTrZc=; b=O14/3Po1w7dbIMmHjmjkH8HqNl17U3hKFxri8rw6nBXV/aoU1z5EqIanct8nZLi5CT1SrT3VC5c/hitpxiIZJc2cpOimkygyBaLu2EucUXyaJJMgQFh7g2f9N6l5ys2NuwqiS/TDsBaE+ljrgFJ2mHTUcfrUOlOPjFR5jCUY/4c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=roKleIjHJCAZqr9dYO7AIKOCdeGGNcDLycg3ww1jpgQituWJZCWy+IfsEm7dqy7Dvko5Va1WLa+aYiz/RzdQpnUjTHoQH3RJ17zKatIW/uJQqc3ypko/q6AmDsr51quDZXYJ+2Kerp4WgH44ZZMkQtJfflbXHDLCsPzqPwsXp7k= Received: by 10.114.109.1 with SMTP id h1mr3029620wac.45.1200609173951; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.133.7 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Yup. That looks like it - dontcha just gotta love the way some vendors abuse the Windows OS. I think I'll give msysgit a try, failing that I can always disable the Embassy Suite (since it seems it's only needed for the fingerprint reader which I don't use anyways). Guys, thanks for all your help - you've been terrific. Paul On Jan 17, 2008 1:24 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote: > > > > Quite possibly. We have Embassy Trust Suite and Symantec Endpoint > > Security installed > > That's it. > > Do a google for > > Embassy Trust Suite cygwin > > and revel in all the reports of problems with cygwin with that thing > installed. > > See for example Dave Korn at: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00132.html > > or this on: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00270.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00856.html > > so I'm pretty sure that's it. > > Ahh, the joys of Windows. > > Btw, did you ever test the msys version of git > > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ > > since I suspect that it's likely to not just be faster, but also more > robust, since there is a much thinner layer between git and windows (and > thus hopefully many fewer complex dependencies that can go wrong). > > Linus > > -- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --- Edsger W. Dijkstra Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP paul.umbers@gmail.com