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From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:36:02 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Burton wrote:
>
> I occasionally have to use Windows (XP under VMWare) and thought I would try
> out msysgit so I installed the recent version (1.6.1). For what I was
> wanting to use it for, it worked OK.
>
> However, I then started getting crashes when using the Windows explorer. I would
> click on a folder to look at its contents and, whammo, Windows would crash. It
> just happened every now and again, not all the time.

msysgit does not install any drivers, so it cannot possibly be the
cause of any BSOD.

> Has anyone else seen this?

It's usually bad hardware or a bad driver. (VMWare is virtual
hardware, so buggy versions count as "bad hardware")

Either of the above can cause problems that appear and disappear based
on unrelated factors, which makes them hard to track down. But if it's
a BSOD, the root cause is not msysgit.

Peter Harris