{"thread":{"id":"18036","subject":"Git on MSys broken","startedAt":"2009-02-26T19:56:39Z","lastAt":"2009-02-26T20:52:16Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Nico -telmich- Schottelius","Tim Visher","Marius Storm-Olsen"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"106354","messageId":"20090226195639.GB19384@denkbrett.schottelius.org","threadId":"18036","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git on MSys broken","fromName":"Nico -telmich- Schottelius","fromEmail":"nico-linux-git@schottelius.org","sentAt":"2009-02-26T19:56:39Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T19:56:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nico-linux-git@schottelius.org","avatar":null},"body":"Hello!\n\nI just wanted to show my father how well git works, but the experience\nis rather bad:\n\nAll files have a \"beta\" label, which makes not a really stable impression.\nAnd indeed, when trying to start git bash, we get this error:\n\nc:\\Programme\\Git\\bin>bash\n0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487\nAllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x71540000, RegionSize 0x1C0000, State\n0x10000\nc:\\Programme\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's\nheap, Win\n32 error 6\n\nWell, it's already known, but the the hint from\nhttp://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=133\n(found only from\nhttp://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=176)\n\nto install a differnt dll can just be considered a dirty hack.\n\nSorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.\n\nNico\n\n-- \nThink about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).\nhttp://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/\n\nPGP: BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42  F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C\n"},{"id":"106356","messageId":"c115fd3c0902261220i4f0d2ba6t7e5e877444fcc850@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18036","inReplyTo":"20090226195639.GB19384@denkbrett.schottelius.org","subject":"Re: Git on MSys broken","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-02-26T20:20:22Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T20:20:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius\n<nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> wrote:\n\n> Sorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.\n\nThat's strange.  I installed Git through MSysGit on a server here at\nwork and it works great.\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"},{"id":"106362","messageId":"49A70100.4010604@trolltech.com","threadId":"18036","inReplyTo":"20090226195639.GB19384@denkbrett.schottelius.org","subject":"Re: Git on MSys broken","fromName":"Marius Storm-Olsen","fromEmail":"marius@trolltech.com","sentAt":"2009-02-26T20:52:16Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T20:52:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"marius@trolltech.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/a40071d8f651862c6ab10bd7996f0ad84d94f06c0399de9e3fa4f06beb390a71?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Nico -telmich- Schottelius said the following on 26.02.2009 20:56:\n> Well, it's already known, but the the hint from \n> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=133 (found only\n> from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=176)\n> \n> to install a differnt dll can just be considered a dirty hack.\n> \n> Sorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.\n\nWell, to our defence, it's not our bug but an MSys issue. The r00t of \nthe problem is the base address of the msys dll, and that relocating \nit for some reason breaks. So, in the end it depends on you system, \nand which DLLs msys will pull in there, and what those DLLs base \naddress is. If they collide, and the msys dll need to relocate on your \nmachine, this bug may manifest itself.\n\nAFAIK someone on the team is looking into it, but the team is rather \nsmall and have limited resources. Any help would be greatly \nappreciated, especially from people that can reproduce the error, \nwhich I can't :-(\n\n--\n.marius\n"}]}