Re: cygwin git diff crash

["Jeremy Ramer" <jdramer@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>
>> Ok this is a weird issue and it's probably cygwin's fault, but I
>> haven't found any way to fix it so I' thought I would throw it out
>> here for comment.
>>
>> I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin. I have a repo where if any file has
>> changes and git detects as mode 100644 I get this error:
>> $git diff
>>       3 [main] git 2744 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could
>> not load user32, Win32 error
>>
>> If I change the mode to 100755 git diff will work fine.
>> $chmod a+x test.cpp
>> $git diff
>> diff --git a/test.cpp b/test.cpp
>> old mode 100644
>> new mode 100755
>> index 7c0dfcd..20987a7
>> --- a/test.cpp
>> +++ b/test.cpp
>> @@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ int main()
>>
>>  void func()
>>  {
>> +       int a;^M
>>  }
>>
>>  void func2()
>>  {
>> +       int b;^M
>>  }
>>
>> Anybody have a clue as to why this might occur?  I have seen this in
>> many of the repo's I use, but it is not repeatable.  I tried making a
>> test repo but could not reproduce.
>
> Wow, that _is_ weird.  Does your test suite pass?
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>

Forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure how to run the test suite.  I
did a quick google search but didn't find anything.  I am using
cygwin's packaged version of git and am not building it from source,
so maybe the suite is not available.  If I get a chance I will try
building from source.

Jeremy