From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Schuberth Subject: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:02:13 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 07 11:05:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIL0c-0007uk-2a for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:05:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758289AbXHGJFQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757986AbXHGJFP (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:05:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55858 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757248AbXHGJFK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:05:10 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IIKzu-0004MA-6J for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:05:02 +0200 Received: from port-83-236-129-242.static.qsc.de ([83.236.129.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:05:02 +0200 Received: from sschuberth by port-83-236-129-242.static.qsc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-83-236-129-242.static.qsc.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm running git 1.5.2.2 under Cygwin on Windows XP. This is what I'm (reproducibly) getting if I try to clone QGit's repository: sschuber@xp-sschuber2 ~ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sschuber/qgit4/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 2295 objects. remote: Deltifying 2295 objects... remote: 100% (2295/2295) done Indexing 2295 objects... remote: Total 2295 (delta 1793), reused 1218 (delta 955) 100% (2295/2295) done Resolving 1793 deltas... 100% (1793/1793) done : not a valid SHA1b870df7cde1e05ee76d1d15ea428f fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD sschuber@xp-sschuber2 ~ $ git --version git version 1.5.2.2 I'm not sure whether the cause for this is the same as mentioned at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/54825 However, the most recent msysGit worked fine for me. Any clues whether this is a repository problem, a Cygwin problem, or a git problem? Thanks. -- Sebastian Schuberth