From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help! Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20080114202932.GA25130@steel.home> <200801160002.51048.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20080116071832.GA2896@steel.home> <20080116183124.GA3181@steel.home> <20080116191737.GD3181@steel.home> <20080116234527.GA3499@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Paul Umbers , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 20:18:04 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 1JFaFX-0000UG-8L for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:18:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753295AbYAQTRe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:17:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752959AbYAQTRe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:17:34 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49371 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751882AbYAQTRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:17:33 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2008 19:17:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 17 Jan 2008 20:17:31 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19niJk+ZkhnKKfcdOOnudeOm1Ix7B2vAim1zq0VVm TkbUK2+W9k6LeL X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote: > > > > Incidentally, I've tried this on two other machines at work with the > > same results. The steps to reproduce are annoyingly simple: download > > cygwin installer & execute (accept all defaults), select the packages > > specified for the binary windows install on the git wiki, try to > > create a git repository and add files. Frustrating - especially since > > my desktop at my last job worked just fine. > > Is there perhaps some odd virus scanner or something that interferes > with filesystem operations? Or that Logitech Abomination of an "Updater service"? On one of my machines, I had tons of problems before just uninstalling those "drivers". Ciao, Dscho