Subject: Re: Git error on Cygwin

From: Claudio Scordino <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:29:47 +0200

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Claudio Scordino <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    I just installed cygwin on Windows XP and I have the following error when
>> using git-clone.
>>
>> (Consider that the same command on the same repository works on Linux).
> 
> Definitely.
> 
>> $ git-clone <username>@<host>:/<path>/<project>
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Claudio/<project>/.git/
>> <username>@<host>'s password:
>> remote: Generating pack...
>> remote: Done counting 30387 objects.
>> remote: Deltifying 30387 objects...
>> remote:  100% (30387/30387) done
>> Indexing 30387 objects...
>> remote: Total 30387 (delta 4446), reused 30188 (delta 4351)
>>   100% (30387/30387) done
>> Resolving 4446 deltas...
>>   100% (4446/4446) done
>>        3 [main] git-read-tree 2160 C:\cygwin\bin\git-read-tree.exe: *** fatal
>> error - could not load shell32, Win32 error 487
>> /usr/bin/git-clone: line 404:  2160 Hangup                  git-read-tree -m -u
>> $v HEAD HEAD
> 
> Report this to cygwin team. 

Done. :)

> Try rerunning the command, usually
> it helps (typical workaround for cygwin).

Unfortunately it does not.

Hopefully someone from the cygwin team will help me.

Many thanks,

           Claudio